USS Yorktown

USS Yorktown is a traditional ship name of the US Navy, which has been given five times so far after the Battle of Yorktown in the American Revolutionary War.

• USS Yorktown (1840) was a sloop, commissioned in 1840, sunk in 1850
• USS Yorktown (PG-1) was a gunboat, commissioned: 1889, decommissioned: 1921
• USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1937, sunk in 1942
• USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1943, out of service in 1970
• USS Yorktown (CG-48) is a guided missile cruiser, commissioned 1984, decommissioned 2004