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Yorktown was the lead ship of the Yorktown class, which was designed on the basis of lessons learned from operations with the converted battlecruisers of the Lexington class and the smaller purpose-built USS Ranger. Yorktown was at port in Norfolk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, having just completed a patrol of the Atlantic Ocean.
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 .
The crew of Yorktown lived on Maio Island for over a month which, according to Parker, relaxation was the norm and the crew did little more than "relax and play in donkey races." On 8 October, the USS Dale arrived to pick up the crew and they were transferred to the USS John Adams which sailed for Norfolk, arriving in December 1850. [3]
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).
Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command. The installation occupies about 4 miles (6.4 km) of waterfront space and 11 miles (18 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point .
USS Yorktown was lead ship of her class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Yorktown. Yorktown was laid down by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in May 1887 and launched in April
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – From World War II to Vietnam, the USS Yorktown now sits in Charleston Harbor preserving the history of our nation’s bravest. “I was in local law enforcement ...
USS Yorktown may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Yorktown (1839), a 16-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1840 (sunk in 1850) USS Yorktown (PG-1), the lead Yorktown-class gunboat commissioned in 1889 (sold in 1921) USS Yorktown (CV-5), the lead Yorktown-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1937 (sunk in 1942)