| LC control no. | n 86010176 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Yorktown (Aircraft carrier : CV-10) |
| Variant(s) | Yorktown (Aircraft carrier, 2d of the name) Yorktown (Aircraft carrier : CVS-10) |
| Beginning date | 1943-01-21 |
| Ending date | 1973-06-01 |
| Special note | Class in D774.Y63; do not confuse with: n 85281973 Yorktown (Aircraft carrier : CV-5) |
| Found in | Reynolds, C.G. The fighting lady, c1986: t.p. (Yorktown) p. 4, etc. (loss of the old Yorktown (CV-5) at Midway lead the Navy in 9/42 to assign the name Yorktown to CV-10 in honor of the former carrier; commissioned 4/15/43) LC data base, 2/3/87 (hdg.: Yorktown (Aircraft carrier, 2d of the name)) Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, viewed online September 26, 2022: YORKTOWN (CV 10) (The fourth Yorktown (CV-10) was laid down on 1 December 1941 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Bon Homme Richard; renamed Yorktown on 26 September 1942; launched on 21 January 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; and commissioned on 15 April 1943 at the Norfolk Navy Yard; In June of 1952, she was ordered reactivated; On 15 December 1952, she was placed in commission, in reserve, at Bremerton; On 1 September [1957], her home port was changed from Alameda to Long Beach, and she was reclassified an antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft carrier with the new designation CVS-10; On 27 June 1970, Yorktown was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pa.; her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 June 1973) |
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