Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier - Ships in Class

Ships in Class

Name Hull number Laid Down Launched
(sponsor)
Commissioned
(first commanding officer (CO))
Fate
Yorktown CV-5 21 May 1934 4 April 1936
(Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt)
30 September 1937
(Captain Ernest McWhorter)
Was damaged and sunk at Battle of Midway, 5 June 1942
Enterprise CV-6 16 July 1934 3 October 1936
(Mrs. Claude Swanson)
12 May 1938
(Captain N. H. White, Jr.)
Sold for scrap 1 July 1958 to Lipsett, Inc. for $1,561,333 (currently $12,577,105)
Hornet CV-8 25 September 1939 14 December 1940
(Mrs. Frank Knox)
20 October 1941
(Captain Marc Mitscher)
Lost at Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 26 October 1942

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