Famous warship museum stuck in the mud (AP)

by Populux | November 6, 2006 at 08:06 pm
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NEW YORK - The USS Intrepid, the aircraft carrier that survived World War II bomb and kamikaze attacks, got stuck in the mud in the Hudson River on Monday as tugboats tried to pull it from its berth. The ship — a huge floating military museum that draws hundreds of thousands of tourists a year — was supposed to be towed across the river to a dry dock in Bayonne, N.J., for a $60 million renovation. Six tugs pulled with a combined 30,000 horsepower but moved the Intrepid only about 15 feet ...

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