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[[Image:USSYorktown1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-5)]]
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-5)
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!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:US Naval Jack 48 stars.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]
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| Laid down:
| 21 May 1934
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| Launched:
| 4 April 1936
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| Commissioned:
| 30 September 1937
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| Struck:
| 2 October 1942
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| Fate:
| Sunk; [[Battle of Midway]]
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! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 19,800-25,500 tons
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| Length:
| 809 feet 6 inches
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| Beam:
| 83 feet 3 inches (waterline), <br/>109 feet 6 inches (flight deck)
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| Draft:
| 25 feet 11.5 inches
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| Propulsion:
| 9 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers,
4 × Parsons geared turbines,
120,000 shp (90 MW)
4 × screws
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| Speed:
| 32.5 knots
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| Complement:
| 2,217 officers and men
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| Armament:
| 8 × single 5 inch 38 caliber guns
4 × quad 1.1 inch 75 caliber machine guns
24 × .50 caliber machine guns
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| Aircraft:
| 90
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'''USS ''Yorktown''''' was the 5th fleet carrier in the [[United States Navy]], and played a pivitol role in [[World War II]] during the [[Battle of the Coral Sea]], preventing a Japanese thrust against Port Moresby and Australia, and following that engagement, helped turn the tide of the war in the Pacific during the [[Battle of Midway]].
'''USS ''Yorktown''''' was the 5th fleet carrier in the [[United States Navy]], and played a pivitol role in [[World War II]] during the [[Battle of the Coral Sea]], preventing a Japanese thrust against Port Moresby and Australia, and following that engagement, helped turn the tide of the war in the Pacific during the [[Battle of Midway]].