USS Yorktown

USS Yorktown was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the 1781 Battle of Yorktown, she was commissioned in 1937.
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  • Type: Disaster remains
  • Description: 1936 Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
  • Also known as: “CV-5”

USS Yorktown

Latitude
30.59972° or 30° 35′ 59″ north
Longitude
-176.56778° or 176° 34′ 4″ west
Open location code
8225HCXJ+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6853566396
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­wreck
Wiki­data ID
Q311245
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“USS Yorktown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Afrikaans: “USS Yorktown”
  • Arabic: “يو إس إس يوركتاون (سي في-5)”
  • Arabic: “يو إس إس يوركتاون”
  • Asturian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Balinese: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Balinese: “USS Yorktown”
  • Bulgarian: “Йорктаун”
  • Chinese: “CV-5”
  • Chinese: “約克鎮號航空母艦”
  • Chinese: “约克城号航空母舰”
  • Croatian: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Croatian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Czech: “CV-5”
  • Czech: “USS Yorktown”
  • Danish: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Danish: “USS Yorktown”
  • Dutch: “USS Yorktown”
  • Estonian: “Yorktown (laev 1936)”
  • Estonian: “Yorktown”
  • Finnish: “USS Yorktown”
  • Finnish: “USS Yortown CV-5”
  • French: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • French: “USS Yorktown”
  • French: “Yorktown CV-5”
  • German: “CV-5”
  • German: “USS Yorktown”
  • German: “Yorktown”
  • Greek: “CV-5”
  • Greek: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Hebrew: “יורקטאון”
  • Hungarian: “USS Yorktown (CV 5)”
  • Hungarian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Indonesian: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Indonesian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Irish: “USS Yorktown”
  • Italian: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Italian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Japanese: “ヨークタウン”
  • Korean: “CV 5”
  • Korean: “CV-5 USS 요크타운”
  • Korean: “CV-5”
  • Korean: “USS 요크타운”
  • Malay: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Malay: “USS Yorktown”
  • Marathi: “यु.एस.एस. यॉर्कटाउन”
  • Marathi: “युएसएस यॉर्कटाउन”
  • Persian: “یواس‌اس یورک‌تاون (سی‌وی-۵)”
  • Persian: “یواس‌اس یورک‌تاون”
  • Piemontese: “USS Yorktown”
  • Polish: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Polish: “USS Yorktown”
  • Portuguese: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Portuguese: “USS Yorktown”
  • Russian: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Russian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Russian: “USS Йорктаун”
  • Russian: “Йорктаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Silesian: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Silesian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Slovak: “CV-5”
  • Slovak: “USS Yorktown”
  • Spanish: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Spanish: “USS Yorktown”
  • Swedish: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Swedish: “USS Yorktown”
  • Thai: “ยูเอสเอส ยอร์กทาวน์ (CV-5)”
  • Thai: “ยูเอสเอส ยอร์กทาวน์”
  • Turkish: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Turkish: “USS Yorktown”
  • Ukrainian: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Ukrainian: “USS Yorktown”
  • Vietnamese: “CV 5”
  • Vietnamese: “CV-5”
  • Vietnamese: “USS Yorktown (CV-5)”
  • Vietnamese: “USS Yorktown”
  • “USS Yorktown”

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