The carrier is huge! Statistics blur into a sea of numbers but one stayed with me. The crew consisted of a total of 3,248 men. That's more than the adult population of Kirkby Stephen, Tebay and Brough combined! The Intrepid served in the second world war, in Vietnam and during the US space programme it was a recovery ship for two of the Gemini missions. My Uncle served on the Implacable, a slightly smaller British carrier built at the same time. It was moving to look at the second world war section and to realise that this is how he had served.
