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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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

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2 April 1999