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{{Ship

| name=USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-5)  

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| image=USSYorktown1.jpg

!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy  no-repeat scroll top left;"|USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-5)

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| flag-raw=[[File:48 star flag.png|40px]] [[Image:US Naval Jack 48 stars.png|30px]]

!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career

| flag-caption=

!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]]

| owner=United States Navy

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| authorized=3 August 1933

| Laid down:

| keellaid=21 May 1934

| 21 May 1934

| launched=4 April 1936

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| commissioned=30 September 1937

| decommissioned=

| 4 April 1936

| status=Sunk, [[Battle of Midway]]<br/>7 June 1942

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| type=Aircraft carrier<br/>''Yorktown''-class

| displ=19,800 t

| 30 September 1937

| length=809 ft 6 in

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| beam=83 ft 1 in waterline<br/>114 ft flight deck

| draft=28 ft

| speed=33 knots

| test=

| armament=eight 5"/38 cal guns<br/>four 1.1 inch 75 cal quad machine guns<br/>twenty-four .50 cal machine guns

| Sunk; [[Battle of Midway]]

| crew=2,217 officers and men

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| troops=

! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics

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| Displacement:

| 19,800-25,500 tons

| 809 feet 6 inches

| 83 feet 3 inches (waterline), <br/>109 feet 6 inches (flight deck)

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| Draft:

| 32.5 knots

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| Complement:

| 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]].