Read more: The 10 Most Legendary Ships Of WW2 Ranked From Worst To Best ... reach the displaced capsule and its pilot, it was the USS Intrepid, then designated an antisubmarine carrier, that ...

J. Lloyd “Doc” Abbot Jr., the Intrepid skipper from 1960 to 1962, ordered the mooring lines cast off. Six tugboats, with a combined 30,000 horsepower, shoved the ship into the Hudson River.

"The Corsair is what is going to welcome people into our new exhibition and it really cements this idea that the whole purpose of this ship was ... off the vast USS Intrepid flight deck.

But size is relative. On a ship like the Intrepid, which is roughly 890 feet long, a few feet shorter than the height of the office tower at 425 Park Avenue, so many spaces seem extra-extra-large.

Corsairs were among the most flown aircraft from the flight deck of the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier ... with the overall history of the ship and also how the ship changed over the years ...