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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