Eighty-three years after sinking, the USS Yorktown is still revealing ... “Its motifs showcase the pride that Yorktown’s sailors had for their ship, the global scale of Yorktown’s activities ...

slipping beneath the waves after Japanese forces torpedoed the ship during the Battle of Midway. On April 19 and 20, NOAA Ocean Exploration explored the final resting place of USS Yorktown ...

Resting 3.1 miles beneath the surface and roughly 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu, the Yorktown was first discovered in 1998 by Robert Ballard in coordination with the National ...

Other discoveries aboard the carrier included a mural known as “A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown” that was hand-painted inside the ship’s No. 2 elevator shaft. Until now ...

View of the mural, ‘A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown,’ hand-painted inside the ship’s #2 elevator shaft, seen during the Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping expedition dive on ...

The Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor, was recently presented to Rear Adm. James H Flatley III aboard the USS Yorktown—the perfect place to ...

After plunging through the depths, the feared battleship hit a seamount that triggered a landslide, carrying the vessel to a final depth of 15,700 feet. The USS Yorktown was an aircraft carrier ...

"That (ship) was my home, so I was home again ... You could see all the way across the flight deck. The USS Yorktown is in the best shape of al ...

Every commercial ship and military vessel coming through Charleston Harbor passes a clear reminder of the region's ties to the Navy as they sail past the USS Yorktown, Koepp said. The Essex-class ...

Thursday, May 8, marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. The war reshaped Europe and the world from ...