USS Yorktown
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USS Yorktown may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:
- USS Yorktown (1839), a 16-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1840 (sunk in 1850)
- USS Yorktown (PG-1), the lead Yorktown-class gunboat commissioned in 1889 (sold in 1921)
- USS Yorktown (CV-5), the lead Yorktown-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1937 (sunk in 1942)
- USS Yorktown (CV-10), an Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 (museum ship since 1975)
- USS Yorktown (CG-48), a Ticonderoga-class cruiser commissioned in 1984 (undergoing scrapping)
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.