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USS Intrepid Stuck in Mud

Crews called off a move of the 63-year-old aircraft carrier after a small armada of tugboats couldn't free the ship from its berth at Pier 86 in New York.
Officials planned to move the ship to Bayonne, N.J., to undergo an 18-month restoration as part of a $60-million rehabilitation project that will restore the Intrepid.
Crews have worked for the last month and a half removing 27 feet of silt in preparation for the move.
The Intrepid saw action in the south Pacific during World War II.
The Navy decommissioned the ship in 1974, and in 1982 the Intrepid was moved to the west side of Manhattan, where it became a floating museum.
Arnold Fisher, chairman of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, said the need to rebuild the pier gave museum officials the impetus to restore the ship.
They plan to spend $40 million on restoring the pier and another $20 million on the rehabilitation of the ship.
The sendoff for the popular tourist attraction included U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton and former New York Mayor Ed Koch.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton
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