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	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - USS Yorktown
		Second of the Essex class carriers, Yorktown replaced her namesake, lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
		Yorktown's planes inflicted heavy losses on the enemy at Truk and in the Marianas; the carrier supported American troops in the Philippines, at Iwo Jima, and at Okinawa.
		Yorktown and other Essex class carriers were the core of the U.S. postwar fleet.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/yorktown.htm (286 words)

	Yorktown class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yorktown class aircraft carriers were built by the USA not long before World War II in a series of three.
		Except for Enterprise, the entire class had been lost by the end of 1942, with Yorktown sunk at the Battle of Midway in June; Hornet joined the class exemplar on the bottom of the Pacific in September at the Battle of Santa Cruz.
		The Yorktown class had proved to be vulnerable to torpedoes and while undergoing repairs in late 1942, Enterprise also recieved an extensive refit, which included an anti-torpedo blister that significantly improved her underwater protection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yorktown_class_aircraft_carrier (532 words)

	Essex class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As bigger carriers entered the fleet, seven of the Essex class and eleven Ticonderogas were reassigned to the anti-submarine warfare mission.
		Aircraft design had come a long way from the comparatively light planes used in carriers during the 1930s.
		Most of the first-line carriers of the pre-war years were equipped with flush deck catapults, but owing to the speed and size of these ships very little catapulting was done—except for experimental purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Essex_class_aircraft_carrier (2118 words)

	USS Yorktown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		She fought in the first major carrier battle of Pacific War: The battle of the Coral Sea where she was badly damage by Japanese Aircraft.
		Yorktown went to Pearl Harbor for quick repairs and joined the battle fleet in time for the decisive Battle of Midway in June 1942.
		In 1998 Robert Ballard found and photographed Yorktown and she was found to be in very good condition considering the amount of damage she took by the Japanese and a 15,000-foot plunge to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
	www.brookhursthobbies.com /Bluewaternavy/uss_yorktown.htm (282 words)

	Find U.S.S. YORKTOWN CV-5 Prints! Get results at MarkChurms.com
		At the Coral Sea, the Yorktown is under attack from the air; her captain, Elliott Buckmaster, maneuvers the ship and avoids all but one bomb strike from a Japanese Navy airplane.
		Planes from USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise attack the enemy's aircraft carriers.
		While the crew struggle to save the ship the Yorktown's planes join with the attack on the last Japanese aircraft carrier, the Hiryu, and leave her as a burning hulk.
	www.markchurms.com /u.s.s.-yorktown-class-enterprise-hornet-cv-5-cv-6-cv-8-wwii-u.s.-navy-prints.html (704 words)

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		Carriers of that class were developed after the end of the Washington Naval Treaty and were thus considerably larger than comparable ships designed earlier.
		The defeat of the Japanese aircraft carriers by 1944 was preview to the surrender of Japan in 1945.
		USS Yorktown is a representative of the Essex class aircraft carriers.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/yorktown.htm (945 words)

	Category:Yorktown class aircraft carriers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For more information, see Yorktown class aircraft carrier
		World War II aircraft carriers of the United States
		This page was last modified 05:14, 24 December 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Yorktown_class_aircraft_carriers (73 words)

	Navy Ships, Model Navy Ships, Ship models, Aircraft Carriers.
		Yorktown received 11 battle stars for her World War II service and was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation.
		This Essex class carrier, along with her 23 sister ships, formed the backbone of the United States Navy during the latter half of the Second World War.
		The full draft is 96300T, the largest knots is 33, the continues traveling ability is 800-1000 thousand/30 knots, the length of the carrier is 332.9m, the width is 40.8m, the draft is 11.3m, The length of the flight deck is 333.9m, the length of angle is 237.7m, the width of flight deck is 76.8m.
	www.yellowairplane.com /Models_Ships/Navy_Ships.html (3550 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Yorktown (CV 5) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yorktown planes scored two bomb hits on Shokaku, damaging her flight deck and thus preventing her from launching aircraft; in addition, the bombs set off explosions in gasoline storage tanks and destroyed an engine repair workshop.
		Yorktown had not achieved her part in the victory without cost, but had suffered enough damage to cause experts to estimate that at least three months in a yard would be required to put her back in fighting trim.
		Yorktown, as it turned out, floated through the night; two men were still alive on board her — one attracted attention by firing a machine gun that was heard by the sole attending destroyer, USS Hughes.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv05-yorktown/cv05-yorktown.html (5733 words)

	Battle of Midway - Part 2
		Yorktown, however, was supposed to go along with cruisers; her top-speed exceeded Ranger's by four knots, an achievement created by the doubling of horse power in it's powerplants (speed-Hp ratio is not linear).
		Yorktown, having served in the Coral Sea together with Lexington, was sunk at Midway, but had proven that her construction was a good one: she had suffered an attack by dive-bombers, was hit durng this attack by three bombs, but was soon again driving 20 knots and flying off fighters.
		The keel for the Yorktown was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, in 1934.
	www.sunwest-emb.com /wiseman/bmidway2.htm (8632 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Yorktown (CV 10) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On 7 November, the aircraft carrier changed operational control to TG 38.1 and, for the next two weeks, launched air strikes on targets in the Philippines in support of the Leyte invasion.
		She rendezvoused with the other carriers on 13 December and began launching air strikes on targets on the island of Luzon in preparation for the invasion of that island scheduled for the second week in January 1945.
		The aircraft carrier fueled and provisioned at Ulithi until 30 December 1944 at which time she returned to sea to join TF 38 on strikes at targets in the Philippines in support of the landings at Lingayen.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv10-yorktown/cv10-yorktown.html (6247 words)

	USS Cabot and USS Belleau Wood were the Carriers used by Air Group 31
		Their first carrier was the USS Cabot (CVL-28) which they boarded in November of 1943 and served on until October 4,1944.
		Independence class aircraft carriers were rather small when compared to the large Essex.
		To give you an idea of the size of an Independence Class aircraft carrier, here is a photo of CVL- 22 with some of her air wing on the 71 foot wide flight deck.
	www.vf31.com /CVL/cvl.html (224 words)

	USN Ship Types--Ranger, Yorktown & Wasp class aircraft carriers (CVL)
		Completed in 1937 and 1938, these two carriers were satisfactory in most ways, and a slightly-modified third ship, Hornet (CV-8), was built under the Fiscal Year 1939 building program, after treaty restrictions had been effectively set aside by the outbreak of the European war.
		Strictly a result of the limitations imposed by international agreement, she was the Navy's last serious attempt to build a small fleet carrier from the "keel-up", though an even smaller design, the Independence class, with greatly reduced aircraft capacity, was generated as a result of the World War II emergency.
		Their side protection schemes alongside the boilers proved not quite adequate to the threat, a weakness recognized when they were built but one that could not be addressed within the available tonnage, and the arrangement of their steam generating system clearly needed improvement.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/cv/cv5-7cl.htm (1358 words)

	Yorktown
		Four IJN carriers and one heavy cruiser were lost at Midway.
		But Yorktown herself was disabled by Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes.
		Note that there were external differences between Hornet and her sister ships Yorktown and Enterprise.
	www.steelnavy.com /Yorktown.htm (311 words)

	USS Yorktown (CV 10)
		USS YORKTOWN was the second ESSEX - class aircraft carrier and the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name.
		Decommissioned on June 27, 1970 at Philadelphia, Pa., the YORKTOWN was subsequently berthed with the Philadelphia Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
		During 1974, the Navy Department approved the donation of YORKTOWN to the Patriot's Point Development Authority, Charleston, S.C. She was towed from Bayonne, N.J., to Charleston S.C., in June of 1975.
	navysite.de /cv/cv10.htm (282 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (i) of the Yorktown class
		uboat.net - Allied Warships - Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (i) of the Yorktown class
		She was damaged by aircraft on 8 May 1942 during the battle at Coral Sea but underwent emergency repairs at Pearl Harbour.
		Buckmaster) was thus present for Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942 and was heavily damaged by torpedoes and bombs from Japanese aircraft.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/5511.html (137 words)

	WORLD WAR 2 BATTLESHIPS
		USS Enterprise CV-6 Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier (CV) 1944
		USS Hornet CV-8 Yorktown class Aircraft Carrier (CV) 1942
		USS Yorktown CV-5 Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier (CV) 1942
	www.brookhursthobbies.com /Bluewaternavy/world_war_2_battleships.htm (224 words)

	LEYTE - Essex Class carriers (D Llewellyn James)
		This class of large fast aircraft carrier was a development from the three ships of the pre-war Yorktown Class (see USS Enterprise
		The Essex Class were the mainstay of the Fast Carrier Force, and by the end of 1943 constituted the main striking power of the Pacific Fleet.
		They were considerably larger than the Yorktowns but retained the same high speed, and they were given a very powerful and effective anti-aircraft armament (which was to prove itself essential, especially after the start of Kamikaze attacks on the US fleet in late 1944).
	www.odyssey.dircon.co.uk /LEYTE_EssexClassCarriers.htm (309 words)

	Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Aircraft carriers including USS Yorktown, USS Enterprise and USS Hornet from their launch to their participation in major wars also notice board for naval historians and families of ex-crew of the Yorktown class aircraft carriers.
		USS Yorktown seen accompanied by her destroyers including USS Hammann shown under attack by Japanese Torpedo Bombers (Kates) during the battle of Midway.
		The first light silhouettes the massive outline of the Yorktown class carrier USS Enterprise, in mid April 1944 she was partnered by the new Essex class carrier USS Lexington.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /yorktown_class.htm (674 words)

	US Navy
		Identical in all respects to the preceding Tennessee class except for the substitution of eight 16 inch for twelve 14 inch.
		Two of the ships were taken in hand for conversion to full-flight deck aircraft carriers, these becoming the famed Lexington and Saratoga.
		The PT Boat was a small, wooden craft that carried enough firepower to sink a battleship, was faster than anything on the water, and could sneak right up to shore to perform reconnaissance or drop off troops.
	homepage.eircom.net /~war/usnavy.htm (975 words)

	Patriots Point - Tour Exhibits - USS Yorktown
		At nearly 900 feet in length, weighing in at more than 27,000 ton and bristling with weapons and war planes, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) was one of the most imposing modern marvels on the planet during WWII.
		Yorktown and her valiant crew would earn many honors for extraordinary heroism including the Presidential Unit Citation.
		The USS Yorktown participated in the recovery of NASA's Apollo 8 crew in 1968.
	www.patriotspoint.org /exhibits/yorktown (382 words)

	Revell 1:1200 USS Enterprise Yorktown Class Aircraft carrier (Minikit) (05801) \| Antics Online
		This kit could also be used to construct a model of other members of the Yorktown class, Hornet and Yorktown.
		This type of aircraft carrier was developed on the line of the Ranger aircraft carrier, but they proved more satisfying in all the qualities.
		They were the most famous American aircraft carriers of the 2.
	www.shipmodels.co.uk /1344_1_1419275.html (312 words)

	USS Hornet, Ships of Battlegroup
		She performed admirably during the first year of the war against Japan, carrying the Doolittle raiders to bomb Japan and participating in the decisive Battle of Midway, until the “Lucky Hornet” was hit for the first time and sunk on October 27, 1942, during the Battle of Santa Cruz.
		The war ended before this was completed and the carrier spent the rest of 1945 bringing veterans home from the Pacific.
		The old carrier was saved from the scrap heap by the efforts of historically-minded citizens and in 1998 became the current memorial and museum ship at Alameda, California.
	www.lostbattalion.com /t-bg_Hornet.aspx (535 words)

	American Legion Pearl Harbor Essay Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Japanese celebrated a grand tactical victory but strategically, it was not as effective because the heart and soul of the Pacific Fleet was not at Pearl that morning.
		All three Pacific aircraft carriers: the Enterprise, the Saratoga, and the Lexington were all out heading towards different destinations.
		A small squadron of B-25 "Mitchells" (sixteen bombers to be exact) was hastily assembled to be launched from USS Hornet, a Yorktown class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
	www.monroe.k12.fl.us /MHS/pearlharbor.htm (613 words)

	US Fleet Carriers in World War II
		Yorktown and Hornet were transferred to the Pacific in December 1941 and March 1942.
		Starting in December 1942, the Essex class carriers started to enter service and by late 1943 the U.S. had enough carrier forces to perform operations throughout the Pacific.
		In general, the carriers performed three types of operations: carrier raids; carrier versus carrier battles; and amphibious landing support.
	ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/USNCV.cfm (509 words)

	Ship & Boat Models, Ship Model Kits by Type & Scale, 1:1200 Plastic Kits \| Antics Online
		The USS Enterprise - Big E - and her aircraft were responsible for the destruction of 911 aircraft and 71 ships in WW2.
		In 1939/40 she ventured forth to the north of the North Sea and sank the British auxiliary cruiser Rawalpindi.
		The "Queen of the Sea" was to carry 1,316 passengers from Southampton to New York for the White Star Line.
	www.shipmodels.co.uk /1344_1.html (497 words)

	US Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1940-1945
		Carried as Aircraft Carriers, Escort (AVG) until 20 Aug. 1942 and Auxiliary Aircraft Carriers (ACV) until CVE designation established 15 July 1943.
		The first vessels designated as escort carriers to be added to the U.S. Navy.
		First Escort Carriers designed and built from the keel up as such.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-cv.html (571 words)

	Absolutely the finest Aircraft carrier prints
		Nimitz Class: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), USS Eisenhower (CVN-69), USS Nimitz (CVN-68),
		Enterprise Class: USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Enterprise (CVAN-65).
		Yorktown Class: USS Yorktown (CV-5),USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Hornet (CV-8)
	www.windjammer-arts.com /CV.htm (121 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Yorktown class Aircraft carriers
		One of the main reasons for the defeat of the IJN in the Pacific were the 3 ships of this class.
		USS Yorktown (i) (CV 5) (lost 7 Jun, 1942)
		2 aircraft carriers of the Yorktown class lost.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=236 (113 words)

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