• (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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    USS Yorktown (DDG-48/CG-48) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy from 1984 to 2004, named for the American Revolutionary War Battle...
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    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)...
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    The first USS Yorktown was a 16-gun sloop-of-war of the United States Navy. Used mostly for patrolling in the Pacific and anti-slave trade duties in African...
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    the USS Yorktown as Executive Officer. He was in that position when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and returned to his former post with Yorktown in...
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    Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002...
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    bumping incident of 12 February 1988 occurred when American cruiser USS Yorktown tried to exercise the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial...
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    The second USS Astoria (CL/CA-34) was a New Orleans-class cruiser of the United States Navy that participated in both the Battle of the Coral Sea and...
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    The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at...
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    Lexington and Yorktown classes. Although the Pacific Fleet was strengthened by the transfer of the USS Yorktown to the Pacific, the torpedoed USS Saratoga...
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    when she was scuttled after being crippled by aircraft from USS Enterprise and USS Yorktown. Yamaguchi was born in Koishikawa, Tokyo, and was the third...
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    USS Yorktown was lead ship of her class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was...
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    during the Battle of Midway, while assisting the sinking aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. Hammann was launched by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company...
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    cruiser Mikuma. The U.S. lost the carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann, while the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet survived the battle fully intact...
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    command of USS Yorktown at Naval Air Station Ford Island. He was Commanding Officer of Yorktown at the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. The Yorktown suffered...
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    Black Sea On March 13, 1986, the American cruiser USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron tried to exercise the right of innocent passage under international...
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    the first year of the war. TF17 was initially centered around USS Yorktown. With Yorktown, TF17 engaged Imperial Japanese Navy forces in actions at the...
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    of VB-3, operating from USS Yorktown during Midway. Following the Japanese destroyer Arashi that had been counterattacking USS Nautilus, Leslie and Lieutenant...
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    pre-war naval treaty limits, USS Essex was over sixty feet longer, nearly ten feet wider, and more than a third heavier than Yorktown-class carriers. A longer...
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    original on 14 July 2014. Henry, Ryan (29 November 2022). "Decommissioned USS Yorktown arrives for recycling in Rio Grande Valley". KLST-TV. Retrieved 2 January...
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  • Admiral Nimitz and his staff send the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet, augmented by USS Yorktown, hastily-repaired after being damaged at Coral...
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    aircraft carrier USS Yorktown arrived 43 minutes after splashdown. Forty-five minutes later, the crew was safe on the flight deck of the Yorktown. Apollo 8 came...
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    War II classes: the Lexington class; USS Ranger, the first U.S. purpose-built carrier; theYorktown class, and USS Wasp. As World War II loomed, two more...
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    in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Both carriers and their sister ship USS Yorktown were then recalled to participate in what was to be the Battle of Midway...
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  • commissioning as Enterprise, such as it being re-named from USS Yorktown, USS Ti-Ho, or USS Atlantis. Although outwardly identical to the refitted original...
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    SBDs from USS Enterprise sank the Japanese submarine I-70. In February–March 1942, SBDs from the carriers USS Lexington, USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise...
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    USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) Ticonderoga class: USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) USS Yorktown (CG-48)...
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