Builder's Plan USS Yorktown c.1940

[Lucky13]

Found these...

http://www.hnsa.org/doc/plans/cv5.pdf

 

[oldcrowcv63]

Check out the Catapult tracks on the hangar deck! The go port and Starboard. I recall seeing a Hollywood depiction of a launch from the hangar deck in the film Wing and a Prayer. When the formerly medically grounded pilot Cookie Cunningham makes a suicide plunge into a torpedo to save Carrier X proving to all that his heroic downing of the Zero at Pearl Harbor was no accident. Right....

 

[johnbr]

Good find.

 

[Lucky13]

Just need to buy a h*lluva lot of steel now!

 

[N4521U]

Didn't realize CV-5 had a hanger deck launch! In-ter-esting!

 

[oldcrowcv63]

Didn't realize CV-5 had a hanger deck launch! In-ter-esting!

That surprised me as well. I was pretty sure that the Essex class had at least one (depicted in the film, since an Essex class was used to depict the pre-Midway USN CVs.) but didn't realize the Yortowns also had them (at least one according to Wikipedia) but Lucky's blue prints indicate two.

Yorktown class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Crimea_River]

Neat!

 

[model299]

What a find!! I'm a mechanical designer, and I LOVE stuff like this!!! Thank you!!!

Sigh.

Another website that's gonna consume time........

 

[barney]

I worked my way through college drafting so seeing these old hand lettered drawings is a thrill. The captain and the admiral lived pretty good on these ships judging from their quarters. I also see why, when a ship is hit, the sea is covered with oil. Nice find.

Thanks

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Excellent find Lucky. 8)


Wheels

 

[herman1rg]

Awesome

 

[Capt Spanky]

if memory serves me right the catapults were for scout plane launches. i also believe they were removed late in the war or right after as they were seldom if ever used.

 

[Capt Spanky]

was 1 h4a and only the Yorktown, Intrepid, Hornet, Bunker Hill, Wasp had them installed.

the enterprise had 2 h mkii hanger deck catapults, they were removed during the 1943 refit.

 

[Gnomey]

Interesting find Jan! Thanks for sharing.