Name: USS Yorktown (CV-5)
Namesake: Yorktown, Virginia
Ordered: 3 August 1933
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.
Laid down: 21 May 1934
Launched: 4 April 1936
Commissioned: 30 September 1937
Struck: 2 October 1942
Honors and
awards: American Defense Service Medal
("A" device)/American Campaign Medal / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3 stars) / World War II Victory Medal
Fate: Sunk 7 June 1942
General characteristics
Class and type: Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: As built:
19,800 long tons (20,100 t) light
25,500 long tons (25,900 t) full load
Length: As built: 770 feet (230 m) (waterline @ design draft)
824 ft 9 in (251.38 m) overall
Beam: As built: 83 ft 3 in (25.37 m) (waterline)
109 ft 6 in (33.38 m) (overall)
Draft: 25 ft 11.5 in (7.912 m) (as built)
Propulsion: 9 Ã? Babcock & Wilcox boilers,
4 Ã? Parsons geared turbines,
120,000 shp (89 MW)
4 Ã? screws
Speed: 32.5 knots (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)
Range: 12,500 nautical miles (23,200 km; 14,400 mi) at 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement: 2,217 officers and men (1941)
Sensors and
processing systems: CXAM-1 RADAR from 1940[1]
Armament:
As built:
* 8 Ã? single 5 in/38 cal guns
* 4 Ã? quad 1.1 in/75 cal guns
* 24 Ã? .50 caliber machine guns
From February 1942:
* 8 Ã? 5 in/38 cal
* 4 Ã? Quad 1.1 in/75 cal
* 30 Ã? 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
Armor: As built:
2.5-4 inch belt
60 lb protective decks
4 inch bulkheads
4 inch side and 3 inch top round conning tower
4 inch side over steering gear
Aircraft carried: As built:
90 aircraft
3 Ã? elevators
2 Ã? flight deck hydraulic catapults
1 Ã? hangar deck hydraulic catapults
