Essex class USS Yorktown (CV-10) running trials, 30 Sep 1944, after a refit at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. The pictures show the carrier camouflaged in Measure 33/10A, and details of the flight deck and the numerous gun mounts along its edge. Note that the two aft radio masts have been replaced by whip aerials.

American aircraft carriers at their peak are the queens of the high seas, outclassing even America’s nearest peer competitors. They’re the anchors of U.S. seapower, and have a commensurate price tag, costing billions of dollars to build and thousands of sailors to man. But even the proudest ships outlive their military usefulness — and sometimes they’re barely worth the trouble to tear them down. USS Constellation (CV-64) will be the latest carrier to meet the scrappers. The Navy announced…

USS Yorktown CV-5 was commissioned on 30 September 1937 She took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea, where her aircraft participated in the sinking of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho and damaging Shōkaku. Yorktown was damaged, but returned to Pearl Harbour for repairs. At the Battle of Midway her aircraft sank Soryu and Hiryu. Yorktown was hit by 3 bombs and 2 torpedoes. While being made safe to take under tow, she was struck by two torpedoes fired by the Japanese submarine I-168

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Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has awarded a contract to Curtiss-Wright for the delivery of main propulsion steam turbines and related auxiliary equipment.

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Commissioning Ceremony, USS Yorktown (CV-10), April 15, 1943

Late war (1944) photo of the Yorktown class USS Enterprise (CV-6), the most decorated Navy vessel of WWII.