Welcome to the Intrepid's History Page.

The first ship to carry the name Intrepid was an armed ketch built by the French in 1789 and sold to Tripoli as the Mastico. At the turn of the century the Jefferson Administration of the United States decided to cease appeasing the piratical Yusuf Caramelli, Bashow of Tripoli and instead of sending a tribute, they sent a naval task force to blockade the port city of Tripoli. On 23 December 1803, the frigate USS Enterprise over took and captured the Mastico.

Commodore Preble, commanding officer of the task force renamed the ketch with its lateen sails, Intrepid and earmarked her for danger. After the USS Philadelphia ran aground on an uncharted reef off the coast of Tripoli, the Intrepid was commisioned to destroy her before the Tripoliatians could capture her and her awesome firepower. Slipping into the fortified harbor 15 February 1804, she and her crew blew up the frigate and escaped unharmed through the hail of shells from the fort. British Royal Navy Admiral Lord Nelson called it "The most bold and daring act of the age."

Tragically, the first Intrepid was to become a bomb designed to destroy the well fortified defences of Tripoli which the US Navy had been bombarding for some weeks. Before she reached her destination, the fort saw her and opened fire. Loaded with tons of powder and shells, she exploded before she reached her target, killing all three officers and 10 crewmen that volunteered for the dangerous mission on Sept 4, 1804. The frigate USS Argus waited until dawn, but found no surviors.

The second Intrepid was built 21 July, 1874. She was brig rigged and iron hulled. She was 170 feet long with a 35 foot beam and an 11 foot draft displacing 438 tons. She was an experimental steam torpedo ram. From August to November 1874, she cruised the North Atlantic testing torpedoes. From 1874 to 1890, she patrolled the North Atlantic and Carribean Sea. In 1892 she was decommisioned and sold for scrap.

The Third ship to carry the name Intrepid was launched 8 October 1904 at Mare Island Naval Yard in California. She was one of two 1800 ton steel ships built for training landsmen and apprentices. She was placed in service at San Fransico 16 August 1907 and used as a recieving ship, and later as barracks for men of the Pacific Fleet's F-Boats, a primitive submarine. She was decommissioned 30 August 1921 and then sold for scrap 20 December of the same year.

The most famous of the ocean going Intrepids was the aircraft carrier CV-11, or CVA-11. Commissioned 16 August 1943, she participated in several campaigns during Earth's World War II earning five battle stars and several commendations. During 29 January to 8 February 1944, the carrier's air group bombed, strafed, and provided air cover for the Marines operating on Kwajalien and Majure Atolls. The 16th of February 1944, she was struck by a Japanese aerial torpedo which killed several crewmen and forced the large ship to withdraw from the action and return to Pearl Harbor for repairs. Unable to turn the rudder, the ship circled for hours until a creative Chief Boatswain's Mate and the Damage Control Officer created a makeshift sail from every scrap of material the ship had on board. This allowed the ship to go in a semi straight line enroute to Pearl. It wasn't pretty, but it got the ship back to port. The sail remained onboard the ship until the day it was decommissioned, just in case.

After a lengthy repair, she was sent back to duty. On November 25, 1944 she was hit by two kamikaze dive bombers off the coast of Luzon in the Phillipine Islands. She was afloat, but had to again withdraw from action during the Battle for Leyte Gulf. Arriving at Hunter's Point Naval Station in San Fransico 20 December 1944 she began to go under repairs. By 15 February 1945 she again left for combat. During the attack and invasion of Okinawa 16 April 1945 she was again struck by a kamikaze. This time the damage was minimal due to the training by fire from the previous two attacks. Three hours after she had been hit, she landed her planes on the charred deck. After returning to the States due to complications with the elevator system from the attack, she was rapidly repaired speedily by work crews. She returned to duty only to engage in two more small battles before the war ended. She was placed in inactive reserve in March of 1946.

In October 1954, she was recommissioned and recieved a major modernization refit. From 1955 to 1962 she served with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, the same sea where her namesake had served with distinction more than one and a half centuries before. In 1956 she returned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where an angled deck was added. This allowed for the simultaneous launch and recovery of aircraft. She served with the Pacific Fleet off Vietnam from 1966 to 1968 participating in three separate tours of duty. She also aided in the recovery of NASA manned capsules from the Mercury and Gemini programs during the great space race. In 1974 she was decommisioned and towed to Philadelphia to participate in the United States BiCentennial Celebration. In 1982 she was designated a living museum and towed to New York City harbor where she remains today.

The Fifth ship to bear the name was designated NX-07 Intrepid was commissioned nearly one and a half centuries later on October 1, 2151 at the San Fransico Fleet Yards. She was the seventh ship in the NX line. Her first Captain was Jace Rayner, former Starfleet HQ attache turned CO. The Intrepids first mission was to do some warp core and field testing in the space lanes near the Sol System. After the problems with NX-06 Meridian, Starfleet thought that extensive testing was necessary. During testing, a Vulcan ship hailed the ship and then opened fire, unprovoked by the crew. The Intrepid had only a skeleton crew, but eventually won out by destroying the Vulcan ship. Apparently the ship was crewed by Vulcan rebels who disliked logic and humans all at the same time. There were no survivors from the hostile ship.

After enduring the attack the Intrepid went back to Jupiter Station for repairs. It was there that the crew learned of a distress signal from NX-08 Trope. Hurredly, the crew left space dock and headed out to rescue the Trope in February of 2152. Upon reaching the Trope, the crew of Intrepid drove off the attacking ships, destroying three. After freeing the crew of the Trope, Intrepid took several Andorian prisoners to take back to Earth. With the situation resolved, Intrepid started on thier return mission to Jupiter Station for repairs and to get a full crew compliment. It was then an unknown force brutally attacked the ship and left her for dead. All but two of the ship's crew survived the heinous attack. The surviors re-established engine control and limped back with no comm system at half impulse. It was here that the ship earned its name "The Lucky 7" for it was truly lucky that the ship managed to hold together after the massive firefight where a lesser ship would have been destroyed.

Now she has undergone major repairs at San Fransico Fleet Yards and a new crew has embarked on her for her new mission. Louis P. Brown, one of the surviving members of the original crew, was promoted to Captain and now has command of Intrepid as she leaves on her first of hopefully several successful missions.

Kudos to Tony for collecting this information along with Buster.