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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Yorktown |
| Namesake | Battle of Yorktown |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 1 December 1941 |
| Launched | 21 January 1943 |
| Commissioned | 15 April 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 9 January 1947 |
| Nickname(s) | The Fighting Lady |
| Recommissioned | 2 January 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 27 June 1970 |
| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 1 June 1973 |
| Status | Museum ship at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class and type | Essex-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 93 ft (28.3 m) |
| Draft | 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range | 14,100 nmi (26,100 km; 16,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 2,600 officers and enlisted men |
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| Aircraft carried | 90-100 aircraft |
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| Nearest city | Mount Pleasant |
| Coordinates | 32°47′26″N 79°54′31″W / 32.79056°N 79.90861°W |
| Built | 1941 |
| Architect | Newport News Shipbldg. & Dry Dock |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001519 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 10 November 1982[1] |
| Designated NHL | 19 June 1980[2] |
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. She is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, though the previous ships were named for the 1781 Battle of Yorktown. Yorktown was commissioned in April 1943, and participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning 11 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation.
Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in February 1953 as an attack carrier (CVA), and served with distinction during the Korean War. The ship was later modernized again with a canted deck, eventually becoming an anti-submarine carrier (CVS) and served for many years in the Pacific, including duty in the Vietnam War, during which she earned five battle stars. The carrier served as a recovery ship for the December, 1968, Apollo 8 space mission, the first crewed ship to reach and orbit the Moon, and was used in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and in the 1984 science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment.
Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 became a museum ship at Patriots Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, where she was designated a National Historic Landmark.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 23 January 2007.
- ^ "Yorktown, USS (Aircraft Carrier)". National Historic Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2008.