Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Photo # NH 53251:  USS Intrepid in drydock, circa the 1870s

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Intrepid (1874-1892)

USS Intrepid, a 1150-ton steam torpedo ram built at the Boston Navy Yard, was commissioned at the end of July 1874. She spent the next few months conducting torpedo trials in the waters off New England and New York and was then decommissioned at the New York Navy Yard. Intrepid had occasional active service over the next several years and in 1882 began conversion to a light-draft gunboat for service in Chinese waters. This work continued slowly until 1889 and was then suspended. USS Intrepid was sold in May 1892.

This page features the only views we have related to USS Intrepid (1874-1892).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: NH 53251

USS Intrepid
(1874-1892)

Bow view, taken in dry dock, circa the 1870s.
Note the torpedo projection device at her forefoot, pattern of her hull plating and the anchor hanging from her port hause pipe.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 540 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 84469

"The Recent Experiments at the Torpedo Station at Newport, R.I., before the U.S. Naval Board"


Engraving published in 1874, based on sketches by Lieutenant Commander Richard C. Hooker, USN. The individual views include:
1. Explosion of a submarine mine;
2. Explosion of a spar torpedo;
3. The new iron-clad torpedo boat Intrepid;
4. Blowing up an old hulk with nitro-glycerine.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 152KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

Page made 2 May 2002