HMS Intrepid (L11)

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	19 December 1962
Launched:	25 June 1964
Commissioned:	11 March 1967
Decommissioned:	31 August 1999
Fate:	Currently (2006) in Portsmouth awaiting disposal
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:
Length:
Beam:
Draught:	9.8 m docked down / 7 m normal
Propulsion:	2 English Electric Steam turbines. 2 Boilers. 22,000 shp. 550 psi 850 °F.
Speed:	21 kts
Range:	5000 nm at 20 kt
Complement:	550 including small Royal Marines detachment(approx 70 men).
Armament:	2 Seacat launchers. 2 BMARC 20 mm. Later also included a Phalanx CIWS.
Aircraft:	Depending upon period. Mostly 2-4 Westland Wessex helicopters.
Motto:	"Explicet Nomen" - The name says it all

HMS Intrepid (L11) was a Landing Platform Dock (LPD) of the Royal Navy built at John Brown & Co. in Scotland in the early 1960's at a cost of about £10.5 million.

She had a large floodable dock in her stern, with a large flight deck over the top. She carried 4 LCU and 4 LCVP landing craft.

[edit] Falklands

Intrepid was to be decommissioned in 1982, however the Falklands War prevented this. Intrepid sailed in the second wave of ships bound for the islands. On 19 May 1982 a Westland Sea King helicopter bound for Intrepid which was carrying SAS troops hit a flock of birds and ditched in the sea, killing 23.^[1]

The ship was placed in reserve in 1991. In 1995 the government announced plans to replace Intrepid and Fearless with two new LPDs. Intrepid was decommissioned in 1999. She remained in Portsmouth Harbour until February 2007 when the government announced she was to be scrapped.^[1]

OFFICERS: (during the Falklands War) CAPTAIN: Peter Dingemanns The lead and official head of the ship and the ship's company COMMODORE: Bryan Telfer The leader of the crew and the officer in command NOTE: These men were the main people concerned. We are creating stubs for them each and the other main officers.