USS Intrepid: Its moving...!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Thread title says it all. I’m looking right at it; is in mid-Hudson.

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Hooray. Good Sailing* Intrepid. Hurry Back.

  • Or in this case, good towing
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You can watch the progress on the Intrepid’s own webcam.

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New York Times story, with a link to a nice slide show of the Intrepid’s short journey.

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200 years ago, when a ship spent a long time in port the figure of speech was that she was in danger of “grounding on her own beef bones”. It looks as if the Intrepid came close to that sort of fate.