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USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex -class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Initially to have been named Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under construction, after the Yorktown -class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), which was sunk at the Battle of Midway.
Yorktown. (CV-5) USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she was commissioned in 1937. Yorktown was the lead ship of the Yorktown class, which was designed on the basis of lessons learned from operations with the converted battlecruisers ...
The Yorktown class was a class of three aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy and completed shortly before World War II, the Yorktown (CV-5), Enterprise (CV-6), and Hornet (CV-8). They immediately followed Ranger, the first U.S. aircraft carrier built as such, and benefited in design from experience with Ranger and the earlier ...
Yorktown was authorized in the 1886 fiscal year, and the contract for her construction was awarded to the William Cramp & Sons shipyard of Philadelphia. The hull for Yorktown was designed by the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair while the mechanical design was left to the Cramp yard. [4] Yorktown ' s keel was laid on 14 May 1887. [3]
2–4 × .50 in (12.7 mm) cal. machine gun. 2 × Phalanx CIWS. 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes. Aircraft carried. 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. USS Yorktown (DDG-48/CG-48) was a Ticonderoga -class cruiser in the United States Navy from 1984 to 2004, named for the American Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown.
Joseph J. Clark. Admiral Joseph James "Jocko" Clark, USN (November 12, 1893 – July 13, 1971) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who commanded aircraft carriers during World War II. Born and raised in Indian Territory (which later became part of Oklahoma) and a member of the Cherokee Nation, in 1917 he became the first Native American ...
Fires broke out but were eventually contained and extinguished. The resulting damage required Shōkaku to return to Japan for major repairs. The Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku under attack by planes from USS Yorktown, during the morning of 8 May 1942. Splashes from dive bombers' near misses are visible off the ship's starboard side as she ...
USS Yorktown (CV-10) USS Lexington (CV-16) USS Cowpens (CVL-25) USN Task Group 50.2 – Northern Carrier Group – Makin Landing USS Enterprise (CV-6) USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) USS Monterey (CVL-26) Until 8 Dec; USN Raids on Nauru Island (17–19 Nov & 8–12 December 1943) USN Task Group 50.4 – Relief Carrier Group – Nauru Landing USS ...