So does this guy:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/06/america/NA_GEN_US_USS_Intrepid.php
NEW YORK: The legendary aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, which survived kamikaze attacks in World War II, got stuck in the deep Hudson River mud Monday as powerful tugboats fought to pull it free to tow the floating museum downriver for a $60 million (€47 million) overhaul.
The mission was scrubbed for the day at around 10:30 a.m. (1530 GMT) as the tide went down, said Dan Bender, a Coast Guard spokesman. There was no immediate word when the effort would resume.
After 24 years at the same pier on Manhattan's West Side, the Intrepid began inching backward out of its berth, but the tugs moved it only about 15 feet (4.5 meters) before its giant propellers jammed in the thick accumulation of mud. The decommissioned war ship no longer has engines of its own.
Six tugboats had strained to move the giant ship.
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"We were able to move her 15 feet, and then she came to a halt. We tried to add more power with another tugboat but we couldn't wiggle her free," said Jeffrey McAllister, the chief pilot of the tugboat operation.
"We had to give up because the tides were going down. She was moving, we were hopeful, she started to creep along but then she stopped," said McAllister.
"We knew it was not going to come out like a cruise ship," said Matt Woods, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's vice president for operations.
Elected officials, veterans who served on the Intrepid and others had waited on the flight deck for the beginning of the journey five miles (eight kilometers) down the river to a dry dock in Bayonne, New Jersey. Helicopters flew overhead; New York Police Department blue-and-white power boats, Fire Department boats and a Coast Guard cutter were on hand to accompany the aircraft carrier.
"The Intrepid stands for everything we believe in ... our freedom and our values," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the sendoff ceremony before the tugs began their work.
When the ship undergoes its overhaul, which is expected to take 18 to 24 months, the pier also will be renovated. The city is contributing $17 million (€13 million), the state $5 million (€3.9 million), the federal government $36 million (€28.2 million), plus $2 million (€1.57 million) in private funds.
The Intrepid serves as a living memorial to the arms services, a tourist attraction that draws hundreds of thousands people a year and, if the need arises, will become as an emergency operation center for city and federal authorities. The FBI used it as an operation center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The carrier was first sent to the Pacific war combat in 1943. It survived five kamikazi attacks, including one in 1944 when a Japanese suicide pilot crashed into the deck, killing 79 crewmen.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/06/america/NA_GEN_US_USS_Intrepid.php
NEW YORK: The legendary aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, which survived kamikaze attacks in World War II, got stuck in the deep Hudson River mud Monday as powerful tugboats fought to pull it free to tow the floating museum downriver for a $60 million (€47 million) overhaul.
The mission was scrubbed for the day at around 10:30 a.m. (1530 GMT) as the tide went down, said Dan Bender, a Coast Guard spokesman. There was no immediate word when the effort would resume.
After 24 years at the same pier on Manhattan's West Side, the Intrepid began inching backward out of its berth, but the tugs moved it only about 15 feet (4.5 meters) before its giant propellers jammed in the thick accumulation of mud. The decommissioned war ship no longer has engines of its own.
Six tugboats had strained to move the giant ship.
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"We were able to move her 15 feet, and then she came to a halt. We tried to add more power with another tugboat but we couldn't wiggle her free," said Jeffrey McAllister, the chief pilot of the tugboat operation.
"We had to give up because the tides were going down. She was moving, we were hopeful, she started to creep along but then she stopped," said McAllister.
"We knew it was not going to come out like a cruise ship," said Matt Woods, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's vice president for operations.
Elected officials, veterans who served on the Intrepid and others had waited on the flight deck for the beginning of the journey five miles (eight kilometers) down the river to a dry dock in Bayonne, New Jersey. Helicopters flew overhead; New York Police Department blue-and-white power boats, Fire Department boats and a Coast Guard cutter were on hand to accompany the aircraft carrier.
"The Intrepid stands for everything we believe in ... our freedom and our values," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the sendoff ceremony before the tugs began their work.
When the ship undergoes its overhaul, which is expected to take 18 to 24 months, the pier also will be renovated. The city is contributing $17 million (€13 million), the state $5 million (€3.9 million), the federal government $36 million (€28.2 million), plus $2 million (€1.57 million) in private funds.
The Intrepid serves as a living memorial to the arms services, a tourist attraction that draws hundreds of thousands people a year and, if the need arises, will become as an emergency operation center for city and federal authorities. The FBI used it as an operation center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The carrier was first sent to the Pacific war combat in 1943. It survived five kamikazi attacks, including one in 1944 when a Japanese suicide pilot crashed into the deck, killing 79 crewmen.