Aircraft Carriers: Yorktown Class

[Brian James]

USS Yorktown pictured at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co Shipyards,Newport News on August 4th 1937.

[Brian James]

A sad end for a legend....USS Enterprise pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard in the summer of '58, just before scrapping with USS Independence fitting out across the pier.

[designeraccd]

Here is the HORNET under construction in '40 and '41............ DFO

[Brian James]

USS Enterprise pictured as she is struck by a kamikaze off Okinawa on May 13th 1945.

[Brian James]

USS Enterprise, USS North Carolina and USS Washington pictured at the Panama Canal waiting to transit, October 10th 1945.

[Brian James]

USS Enterprise pictured off New York City prior to Navy Day celebrations on October 20th 1945....* Note visitor stairway erected in elevator No1 and aircraft fenced off.

[Brian James]

USS Enterprise pictured at Pearl Harbor in late May '42, prior to departing for Midway on May 28th 1942.

[Brian James]

USS Enterprise pictured one month after commission, passing Hospital Point and heading up the Elizabeth River to Norfolk Navy Yard, June 17th, 1938.

[Brian James]

Yorktown Class Carrier USS Enterprise pictured during her much needed overhaul, in dry dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard on October 19th 1943.

[Brian James]

USS Enterprise pictured in Puget Sound on September 13th 1945.