Steaming off Korea USS Yorktown 1954
Jets on the Yorktown elevator
AJ in a tight fit for the cavernous hanger deck of the USS Yorktown.
It is also apparent that the edge-edge elevator is necessary to handle the AJ's
on this class carrier.
From Naval Aviation News 1955
from the 1957 Cruisebook cover
Modernized
several times since Korea, Yorktown received her latest major modification in
1958, when she was configured to carry out a new mission as the nucleus of a
Hunter-Killer ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) Force and redesignated CVS 10.
The "Fighting Lady"; she has taken lives and she has saved lives...
From the Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center, Washington D.C.
"8 June 1960 - Helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10) rescue 54 crewmen of British SS Shunlee, grounded on Pratus Reef in South China Sea."
USS Yorktown, Yokosuka, Japan 1968
in dry dock, fixing a bent screw shaft
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