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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 .
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 of the Lexington ...
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).
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)
15 April – HMS Majestic laid down; [53] USS Yorktown commissioned. [18] 19 April – HMS Terrible laid down. [54] 26 April – USS Intrepid launched. [18] 1 May – USS Hancock renamed USS Ticonderoga, [18] USS Ticonderoga renamed USS Hancock. [18] 3 May – HMS Ark Royal laid down. [50] 10 May – USS Randolph laid down. [18] 22 May – USS ...
As a non-commissioned vessel the prefix "USS" would not have been included in the vessel's name. USS Enterprise (CV-6) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier: 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 Served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, the most decorated ship of that war. Scrapped, 1 July 1958 – May 1960. USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
Yorktown (lead ship) 30 September 1937 7 June 1942 4 years, 250 days Sunk in the Battle of Midway in 1942 [19] CV-6 Enterprise: Yorktown: 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 8 years, 281 days Scrapped in 1960 [20] CV-7 Wasp: Wasp (lead ship) 25 April 1940 15 September 1942 2 years, 143 days Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 [21] CV-8 Hornet ...
The larger American carriers, USS Yorktown and USS Hornet, were also sent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Theater. Similar to when the escort carrier HMS Audacity had helped reduce the length of time Gibraltar convoys were out of range of protective aircraft in 1941, a year later HMS Avenger helped close the air gap on the Arctic convoy route.