Intrepid Sea
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is a maritime and military history museum.
It has an interesting collection of museum ships.
The museum could be seen in New York City. The location of it is at Pier 86
situated at 46th Street by the West Side of the popular Manhattan.
In the museum is showcased the carrier of aircraft USS Intrepid,
a Concorde SST, the submarine USS Growler,
the Space Shuttle Enterprise, and a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane.
The museum was founded originally in 1983.
It closed doors for public in 2006 and after a big renovation of its facilities
and intrepid and reopened again two years later, in November.
When it opened for first time – in 1983 its situation
was the same as nowadays – at Pier 86 after Zachary Fisher.
This is a New York prominent real philanthropist
and estate developer, and Michael Stern – a brilliant journalist who
succeeded to save the Intrepid by scrapping in 1979.
In 1987 the USS Intrepid was turned into a National Historic Landmark.
The Intrepid served in 2001 as temporary field with headquarters
special for the FBI as it started its investigation of attacks toward World Trade Center.
On 01.10.06 this museum closed its doors to be repaired
and renovated to both the pier and the ship. Intrepid was replaced by
tugboat down the Hudson to The Peninsula
(Bayonne Harbor) in New Jersey where was the previously
Military Ocean Terminal to restore.
In 2006 it was the scheduled replace which was delayed. Then
the propellers stuck of ship in the thick mud named Hudson River,
in prevention of the tugboats by moving the ship away of the berth.
There was another successful attempt,
too which was made on December in the same year,
after operation that was extensive and dredging. The carrier
of aircraft was floated later to Staten Island. There the facilities of the museum
were expanded and upgraded before their return
to Manhattan and the renovated pier.
The whole carrier was moved back into the place on the Hudson River
in 2008 (in October), and opened again for public on 08.11.08.
There are displayed additional aircraft on the
hangar decks and flights and the British Airways Concorde which is
very popular was moved into an exhibit
space on the pier from a barge.
The space Shuttle Enterprise is very special. The enterprise was
lowered in 2012 onto the Intrepid. In 2012 the
enterprise was transferred by barge.
The museum is really interesting and anybody who has the chance should visit it.
It is a part of the popular culture and many
events are done there.
The aerial view from the Hudson River of the museum is fantastic.
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