U.S.S. Yorktown (CV-10)
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Career (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
Recommissioned: 2 January 1953
Decommissioned: 27 June 1970
Reclassified: CVA-10 on 1 October 1952, CVS-10 on 1 September 1957
Struck: 1 June 1973
Status: Museum Ship Patriots Point in Charleston, South Carolina
General characteristics
As built
Class and type: Essex class aircraft carrier
Displacement:
As built: 27,100 tons standard, 36,380 tons full load
Length:
As built: 820 feet (250 m) waterline, 872 feet (266 m) overall
Beam:
As built: 93 feet (28 m) waterline, 147 feet 6 inches (45 m) overall
Draft:
As built: 28 feet 5 inches (8.66 m) light, 34 feet 2 inches (10.41 m) full load
Propulsion:
As designed: 8 boilers 565 psi (3,900 kPa) 850 °F (450 °C), 4 Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 shafts 150,000 shp (110 MW)
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
Range: 20,000 nautical miles (37,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:
As built: 2,600 officers and enlisted
Armament:
As built: 4 twin 5 inch (127 mm) 38 caliber guns, 4 single 5 inch (127 mm) 38 caliber guns, 8 quadruple 40 mm 56 caliber guns, 46 single 20 mm 78 caliber guns
Armor:
As built: 2.5 to 4 inch (60 to 100 mm) belt, 1.5 inch (40 mm) hangar and protectice decks, 4 inch (100 mm) bulkheads, 1.5 inch (40 mm) STS top and sides of pilot house, 2.5 inch (60 mm) top of steering gear
Aircraft carried:
As built: 90 - 100 aircraft, 1 deck edge elevator, 2 centerline elevators
General characteristics
SCB27A Modification
Displacement:
After SCB-27A modification: 28,200 tons standard, 40,600 tons full load
Length:
After SCB-27A modification: 819 feet 1 inch (250 m) waterline, 898 feet 1 inch (274 m) overall
Beam:
After SCB-27A modification: 101 feet 5 inches (30.91 m) waterline, 151 feet 11 inches (46.30 m) overall
Draft:
After SCB-27A modification: 29 feet 8 inches (9.04 m)
Armament:
After SCB-27A modification: 8 single 5 inch (130 mm) 38 caliber guns, 14 twin 3 inch (76 mm) 50 calibre guns
Armor:
After SCB-27A modification: Belt replaced by a blister with 60 lb (27 kg) STS
Aircraft carried:
After SCB-27A modification: 50 aircraft carried in CVS role and 70 in CVA role, 2 H8 hydraulic catapults added
General characteristics
SCB125 Modification
Displacement:
After SCB-125 modification: 30,800 tons standard, 41,200 tons full load
Length:
After SCB-125 modification: 824 feet 6 inches (251 m) waterline, 890 feet (270 m) overall
Beam:
After SCB-125 modification: 101 feet (31 m) waterline, 196 feet (60 m) overall
Draft:
After SCB-125 modification: 30 feet 1 inch (9.17 m)
Armament:
After SCB-125 modification: 7 single 5 inch (130 mm) 38 caliber guns, 4 twin 3 inch (76 mm) 50 caliber guns
U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-10)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Nearest city: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Built: 1941
Architect: Newport News Shipbuilding. & Dry Dock
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference #82001519
Added to NRHP: 10 November 1982
Designated NHL: 19 June 1980
The U.S.S. Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is named after the Battle of Yorktown of the American Revolutionary War, and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. Initially to have been named Bon Homme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while under construction to commemorate U.S.S. Yorktown (CV-5), lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. 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 the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). She was recommissioned too late to participate in the Korean War but served for many years in the Pacific, including duty in the Vietnam War, in which she earned five battle stars. Late in her career she served as a recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission, was used in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and in the science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment.
Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 became a museum ship at Patriot's Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She is a National Historic Landmark.
