USS Yorktown (CV-5)
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USS Yorktown was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the 1781 Battle of Yorktown, she was commissioned in 1937. Yorktown was the lead ship of the
Yorktown in July 1937
Eleanor Roosevelt christens Yorktown (4 April 1936)
Yorktown prepares to get under way from NAS San Diego (June 1940)
Yorktown is refueled by USS Brazos mid-Pacific (July 1940)
Robert Ballard
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Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology. He is
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
…but on 6 June she was struck by two torpedoes fired by a Japanese submarine, and sank the next day. The wreck of Yorktown was located by oceanographer Robert Ballard in 1998. Yorktown was laid down on 21 May 1934 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; launched on 4 April 1936…
Ballard in 2023
Ballard in 1999 with a VHS copy of the film Titanic