Tuesday, January 20, 2009

USS Yorktown aircraft carrier CV-5




USS Yorktown (CV5) is a ww2 american aircraft carrier, commissioned at the Naval Operating Base (NOB), Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 September 1937, was sunk at the Battle of Midway.
Class and type: Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 25,900 t full load
Length: 770 feet
Beam: 109 feet 6 in (33.4 m)
Draft: 25 feet 11.5 in (7.91 m)
Propulsion: 9 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers,
4 × Parsons geared turbines,
120,000 shp 4 × screws
Speed: 32.5 knots
Range: 12,500 nautical miles at 15 knots
Complement: 2,217 officers and men
Sensors and
processing systems: CXAM RADAR from 1940

Aircraft carried:
90 aircraft TBD1 Devastators and Douglas SBD3 Dauntlesses
3 × elevators
2 × flight deck hydraulic catapults
1 × hangar deck hydraulic catapults

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