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Photo # NH 42341:  USS Yorktown during builder's trials, May 1937

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USS Yorktown (CV-5) in 1937


This page presents overall views of USS Yorktown taken in 1937, as the ship ran her trials, completed post-trials outfitting and began her active service.

For additional views of this ship in 1937, see:

  • USS Yorktown in Hampton Roads, 30 October 1937.

    For further pictorial coverage on this ship, see:

  • USS Yorktown (CV-5) -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-G-1007384

    USS Yorktown (CV-5)


    Underway during builder's trials, April 1937.

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

    Online Image: 131KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    Photo #: NH 42341

    USS Yorktown (CV-5)


    Photographed during builder's trials, May 1937.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     

    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.

    Online Image: 139KB; 615 x 675 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    Photo #: 19-N-17422

    USS Yorktown (CV-5)


    Making 17.5 knots, astern, during preliminary standardization trials, run # 41, off Rockland, Maine, 12-21 July 1937. She is pushing up a handsome "moustache" stern wave.
    Carriers of this class were required to make good speed astern, to allow landing planes over the bow and launching over the stern if necessary.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 595 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    Photo #: NH 61507

    USS Yorktown (CV-5)


    Tied up at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 4 August 1937, following sea trials.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     

    Photo #: NH 42342

    USS Yorktown (CV-5)


    Alongside a pier at Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, 2 October 1937.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     

    Photo #: NH 50337

    USS Yorktown (CV-5)


    Tied up at Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, in October 1937. The ship is flying the two-star flag of Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely, Commander, Carrier Division Two.
    Note anchors, jack flying forward, and retractable navigation light mast on the flight deck.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     


    For additional views of this ship in 1937, see:

  • USS Yorktown in Hampton Roads, 30 October 1937.

    For further pictorial coverage on this ship, see:

  • USS Yorktown (CV-5) -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 4 April 1999
    Coding updated 4 May 2009