USS Intrepid (1904)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | 8 October 1904 |
| Commissioned: | 16 August 1907 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 August 1921 |
| Fate: | sold for scrap |
| Stricken: | |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,800 tons |
| Length: | 176 feet 5 inches between perpendiculars |
| Beam: | 45 feet 8 inches |
| Draft: | 16 feet 5 inches |
| Complement: | 136 officers and men |
| Armament: | six four-inch guns, four six-pounders, two one-pounders |
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USS Intrepid, a bark, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the virtue of courage. Her keel was laid down by the Mare Island Navy Yard. She was launched on 8 October 1904 sponsored by Miss Helen de Young and commissioned on 16 August 1907 with Commander Edward E. Capehart in command.
The steel bark was assigned to the Yerba Buena Training Station, San Francisco, California, for duty until 28 February 1912 when she became the receiving ship at the same station. The latter assignment lasted until 25 January 1914 when Intrepid became receiving ship at Mare Island Navy Yard, where she decommissioned 15 October.
Intrepid commissioned in ordinary at Mare Island Navy Yard 11 November 1915 for use as a barracks for the men of submarines USS F-1 (SS-20), USS F-2 (SS-21), USS F-3 (SS-22), and USS F-4 (SS-23) of the Pacific Fleet. In 1920 she again became receiving ship at Mare Island Navy Yard. Intrepid decommissioned 30 August 1921 and was sold 20 December.
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- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
