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YSR-42
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YF-331
USTS Intrepid (III) [Training Ship #2]

1913 International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Have - Rush
NHR
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World War I Victory Medal

Steel-hulled Bark:
  • Laid down 2 January 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Launched, 8 October 1904
  • Commissioned USTS Intrepid (Training Ship #2), 16 August 1907, CDR. Edward E. Capehart in command
  • USS Intrepid was one of two steel hulled ships used to train landsmen and apprentices
  • Decommissioned, 15 October 1914
  • Intrepid served as a receiving ship for various Naval installation in the San Francisco Bay area
  • Commissioned in ordinary, 11 November 1915
  • Decommissioned, 30 August 1921
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Sold, 20 December 1921, for commercial service as a barge
  • Reacquired by the US Navy in 1941 and placed in service as Open Lighter (NSP) YF-331
  • Redesignated Sludge Removal Barge YSR-42 in 1942
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1946
  • Final Disposition, wrecked on the north beach of the Columbia River, 16 February 1954. YSR-42 was stranded just north of Long Beach after being cut loose from the tug Tidewater Shaver near Buoy No. 5 and carried by tide and current onto the the beach. YSR-42 and another smaller barge being towed from Honolulu to Portland without a cargo when they threatened to carry the tug onto Peacock Spit.
    Specifications (Training Ship #2):
    Displacement 1,600 t.
    Length 186' 5"
    Beam 45' 8"
    Draft 16' 5"
    Speed unknown
    Complement 136
    Armament 6 4" gun mounts, 4-6 pdrs, 2 1-pdrs
    Propulsion Sail (bark rigged)
    Auxiliary Power, coal fired boiler, compound reciprocating engine to supply electrical power

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    USS Intrepid (Training Ship #2)
    Intrepid 93k Navy VIPs gather for the keel laying of the steel bark Intrepid at Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 January 1904. She was the first all steel ship constructed at the yard. Building 112, the old sheet metal shop, is in the background, and the Navy Band was on hand for the occasion. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 119k The first rivets are driven for Intrepid at Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 January 1904. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 111k A progress view of Intrepid on the ways at Mare Island Navy Yard on 2 July 1904. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 129k Intrepid ready for launching at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 8 October 1904.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 76116
    Mike Green
    Intrepid 85k Intrepid ready for launching at Mare Island, 8 October 1904. The building of the left was the yard's Gate House. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 93k Stern view of Intrepid on the building ways, 8 October 1904 at Mare Island. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 146k Intrepid christening, 8 October 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 150k Intrepid half way down the ways on 8 October 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid
    094690130
    84k Intrepid waterborne for the first time, 8 October 1904, at Mare Island Navy Yard. David Wright
    Intrepid 80k Intrepid waterborne after launching at Mare Island, 8 October 1904. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 103k Intrepid waterborne after launching at Mare Island, 8 October 1904.
    US Navy photo.
    Tommy Trampp
    Intrepid 223k Intrepid captain's cabin under construction at Mare Island, 7 December 1904.
    US Navy photo from the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum, File Name Intrepid 01-12-04
    Darryl Baker
    Intrepid
    310k Intrepid aft gun deck under construction at Mare Island, 7 December 1904.
    US Navy photo from the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum, File Name Intrepid 02-12-04
    Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 107k Intrepid at Mare Island Navy Yard being outfitted 1 April 1905.
    US Navy photos from the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum.
    Darryl Baker
    Intrepid
    File Name
    Intrepid 01-4-05
    592k
    Intrepid 78k One of Intrepid's port side gun ports, taken at Mare Island Navy Yard, 1 April 1905. Darryl Baker
    YPD-4 407k YPD-1 working on the construction of dry dock #2 at Mare Island in December 1905. Intrepid is in the background.
    MINSY 587-12-1905, Navy Photo, Dec. 1905..
    Darryl Baker
    Pensacola
    094691028
    220k USTS Intrepid (III), background, and USS Pensacola (I), foreground, moored at US Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, circa 1907. Jay Milewski
    Intrepid
    094690128
    291k USTS Intrepid moored at Goat Island Naval Training Island. Oakland Mole (Oakland Long Wharf) is in the background, circa 1907-1912. Ben Levinsohn
    Intrepid 159k USTS Intrepid anchored at Yerba Buena Naval Training Station, San Francisco. The stern of receiving ship USS Pensacola is visible to the right. This photo was attached to the certificate issued to H. H. Loveless, Chief Machinist Mate USN, 25 September1907, upon completing training as an ordinary seaman after 4 months of instruction. The next year he sailed with Dewey in the Great White Fleet. He left the Navy after 2 tours but rejoined in 1924 and was in Hawaii until 1934 and retired just prior to WWII but was recalled and served through the war. Joan Johnson and was her grandfather H. H. Loveless
    Intrepid 94k USTS Intrepid moored pierside at San Francisco (Yerba Buena or Goat Island) Training Station circa 1912.
    US Navy photo from "U.S. Warships of World War 1", courtesy Paul H. Silverstone.
    Robert Hurst
    Intrepid 135k USTS Intrepid moored pierside at San Francisco (Yerba Buena or Goat Island) Training Station circa 1912.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 53252
    Mike Green
    Intrepid 158k USTS Intrepid at the United States Naval Training Camp, Mare Island, Calif., circa 1914. Intrepid is moored at the camp wharf. The building on the left contained quarters for the men of the night patrol, and the wharf also had a landing for small boats.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo No. NH 72962. Courtesy Shipscribe.com.
    Robert Hurst
    Intrepid 252k USTS Intrepid moored at the Naval Training Center, Goat Island, San Francisco Bay, CA., prior to World War I.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 78278, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.
    Mike Green
    Intrepid 63k USTS Intrepid at the Independence Wharf at Mare Island Navy Yard in the early 1920s. She was servings as the Yard's Receiving Ship at this time. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 100k USTS Intrepid (front), the Army Tug T. Murphy (mid dock on the left), the Navy Tug USS Vigilant (directly behind Intrepid), Water Barge #16 & YE-30 (not visible in this photo) on the far side of the dock and cruiser USS Marblehead (rear of the dock) are pictured in Dry Dock # 2 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 18 March 1913. Picture taken looking south. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 131k USTS Intrepid (front), Water Barge #16 & YE-30 (port side of Intrepid and USS Marblehead), the Navy Tug USS Vigilant (directly behind Intrepid), the Army Tug T. Murphy (not visible in this photo) on the far side of the dock and cruiser USS Marblehead (rear of the dock) are pictured in Dry Dock # 2 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 8 March 1913. Picture taken looking east. Darryl Baker
    Intrepid 125k The skeletal remains of ex-USTS Intrepid exposed on a beach in Washington state, circa 1960s. Tommy Trampp
    YSR-42
    Intrepid 89k YSR-42 at Pearl Harbor, circa 1944. The ship in the background is USS Oklahoma (BB-37) shown before stripping was complete. Note that the guns of No.2 turret have already been removed, but the others remain. Robert Hurst
    Intrepid 181k YSR-42 at Pearl Harbor off Ford Island, circa 1945. David Wright
    Intrepid
    094690129
    113k Wreck of ex-YSR-42 on the north beach of the Columbia River. On 16 February 1954 YSR-42 was stranded just north of Long Beach after being cut loose from the tug Tidewater Shaver near Buoy No. 5 and carried by tide and current onto the the beach. David Wright

    USS Intrepid
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    LA Hearld newspaper article - Launching of USTS Intrepid, 8 October 1904
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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