Decrepid
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. It is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, including the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, it was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In its second career, it served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. It was the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission. Because of its prominent role in battle, it was nicknamed "the Fighting I", while its frequent bad luck and time spent in dry dock for repairs—it was torpedoed once and hit in separate attacks by four Japanese kamikaze aircraft—earned it the nicknames "Decrepit" and "the Dry I".
Decommissioned for the second time in 1974, it was put into service as a museum ship in 1982 as the foundation of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex in New York City.
Due to being perceived as a jinxed ship during WWII, the Intrepid had picked up the nicknames "Evil I" and "Decrepid" during its service.
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