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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-462977

USS Yorktown (CV-5)


At the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, in June 1937, while preparing for sea trials.
Note her chrome yellow flight deck markings, applied over maroon-stained douglas fir deck planking.
USS Enterprise (CV-6) is fitting out in the drydock in upper center. USS Boise (CL-47) is two piers over from Yorktown, also fitting out. Several merchant ships are also present.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.

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31 March 1999