United States Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 21 May 1934 - 20 October 1941
- In commission
- 30 September 1937 – 17 February 1947
- Preceded by
- USS Ranger (CV-4)
- Succeeded by
- USS Wasp (CV-7)
- Builders
- Newport News Shipbuilding
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 19,800 long tons (20,118 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 25,500 long tons (25,909 t)
- Length
- 251.16 m (824 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 2,217
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 5 in/38 caliber guns
- 4 × quad 1.1 in/75 caliber guns (Enterprise upgraded to 40 mm Bofors guns)
- 24 × .50 Cal machine guns (all of the ships upgraded to 20 mm Oerlikon cannons)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Enterprise (CV-6) | CV-6 | 1938 | Scrapped 1958 |
| USS Hornet (CV-8) | CV-8 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Yorktown (CV-5) | CV-5 | 1937 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Yorktown-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.