HMS
Intrepid A
History © "Rab
Carrigan 2010"
HMS
Intrepid A
History © "Rab
Carrigan 2010"There have been to present 8 ships named HMS Intrepid. Here Hopefully you will get an insight to the history of the ships that have been named Intrepid and understand why the motto has to be.
"Cela va Sans Dire" it goes with out saying.
Royal Navy Warships named HMS Intrepid have a long
history starting back in 1747 when the 1st Ship to be named Intrepid was
originally a French ship named Serieux
a
64
gun
26x32 pound, 26x18 pound an 12x9 pound guns.
152 ft length by 44ft wide,
Third Rate
ship
of the line that was captured by the
Royal Navy.
She saw action as the 1st HMS Intrepid in Minorca and Aix both in 1756. Later this Intrepid saw action again at the Battle of Lagos and Quiberon Bay in 1759 under the command of Cpt J. Maplesden.
The 1st Intrepid last saw action at the battle of
Havana in 1762 she was finally broken up
at
In January 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard the 2nd HMS Intrepid was laid down and launched on 4th December 1770 as a Third Rate Ship of the line with 64 Guns consisting of 26x24 pounders, 26x12 pounder and 12x6 pounders.. This Intrepid was 160 feet long by 44 feet wide with a builders measurement of 1,374 Tuns. (this being a builders measure of how many tuns/ casks of wine she could carry ).
She saw action at the battle of Martinique in 1780 and then Chesapeake in 1781 under the command of John Hunter who later became an Admiral and Governor of New South Wales in 1795.
Again in 1809 this Intrepid was
involved in the invasion of
Martinique under the command of Captain
Christoper John williams Nesham. From 1810
Intrepid was used as a Harbour Training ship and sold out of the Navy
on
The 3rd Ship to be named HMS Intrepid was a 16x6
pounder gunned
Sloop of war
launched in 1780 and foundered in October 1800.
The 4th Intrepid started out as a civilian wooden screw Discovery (exploration) sloop originally named Perseverance and was purchased in 1850. She got stuck on ice along with HMS Resolute on Melville Island she was abandoned and her ships company returned home on HMS North Star.
Built By
Wigrams at
Blackwall in London the 5th HMS Intrepid entered service in
November 1855, she was a wooden screw gun vessel,
length of 201 feet by 30 feet
beam, armed with 2x68 pounder and 4x32 pounder guns.
The 6th Intrepid was built by the London & Glasgow
Ship building and Engineering company and Commissioned in 1894 as an Apollo
class
protected cruiser
had a ships compliment of 273. She weighed 3600 tons
and was
300 feet in length by 44ft beam, armed with 2 six inch, 6x 4.7 inch and
8x 6 pounder guns.
In 1910 she was converted to a minelayer and in 1918 She was scuttled as a blockship in the Zeebrugge raid.
The 7th HMS Intrepid was an I Class Destroyer (D10)
Built By
J Samuel
White in Cowes Isle of white in 1936. She saw action in the Battle of
the Atlantic, and in the Malta convoys 1942. She was also involved in the
pursuit of the German Pocket Battleship
Bismark in 1941.
She last saw action in the
Dodecanese Campaign and was sunk by
JU88
Aircraft while she was evacuating troops from the port of Laki on the Island of
Leros on
September 1943. A surviving member of her ships company AB Albert Poulter who is
a member of the
HMS Intrepid Association ®
has managed to have a monument
erected in Leros to the men of Intrepid who did not survive.
The 8th HMS Intrepid (L11)
a
Landing Platform Dock was Build by
John
Brown & Company Glasgow, laid down in December 1962, launched in June
1964 and Commisioned in March 1967.
Displacement: 16,950 tons
Length: 520 feet (160 m)
Beam: 80 feet (24 m)
Draught: 21 feet (6.4 m)
Propulsion: 2 English Electric
Steam turbines. 2 Boilers. 22,000 shp. 550 psi 850 °F
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h)
Range: 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 20 knts
Capacity: Up to 700 troops
15 tanks
27 vehicles
Complement: 550 including small
Royal
Marines detachment(approx 70 men)
Armament: 2 (Originally 4) Seacat launchers
2 × BMARC 20 mm.
Original fit 2 × Bofors 40/60
Later also included a Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried: Depending upon period. Mostly 2-4 Westland Wessex helicopters.
This Intrepid Saw Action in 1982 during Operation Corporate ( The Falklands war).She was at the outbreak of the war in a decommissioned state and was made ready in record time with a lot of what was referred to as a scratch crew.
More stories of her career in the Royal Navy Can be
found at
The Home of The HMS Intrepid Association ®
HMS Intrepid Was Decommissioned in 1999 and lay in Fareham Creek Until in 2008 she was taken To Liverpool to be recylced.