Essex-class aircraft carrier
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The Essex class is a retired class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. The 20th century's most numerous class of capital ship, the class consisted of 24 vessels which came in "short-hull"
USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) underway in 1955
1941 design plans for the Essex class.
Leyte underway in 1948
Yorktown at sea in 1943
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
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USS Yorktown is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Initially to have been named Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under
Essex-class aircraft carrier
…the early jet age and saw service in the Vietnam War, with Lexington decommissioned as a training carrier in 1991. Of the 24 ships in the class, four – Yorktown, Hornet, Lexington, and Intrepid – have been preserved as museum ships. The preceding Yorktown-class aircraft carriers and the designers' list of…
USS Yorktown at sea in the Pacific, 1963
Commissioning of USS Yorktown on 15 April 1943
Yorktown with planes of Carrier Air Group 1
Yorktown during the air operations in the Pacific