USS Yorktown (CV-10) Aircraft Carrier Tour, Charleston, SC, 4K 60fps 

I was stationed aboard this ship from April 1967 to March 1970

I was stationed on the USS Yorktown CVS-10, from Apr. 1968 till she arrived at her new duty station of Norfolk, VA, in late Feb. 1969. I was an Airdale. Oh, what memories... picked up the Apollo 8 Astronauts, Borman, Lovell, Anders (first men to ever go to the moon; not land on it, but go to it); filmed the movie, "Tora! Tora!Tora!" on our ship; back in the home port of Long Beach, CA, an episode of the TV hit, "Get Smart," was filmed on the ship (Don Adams, Barbara Feldon ... boy, was she pretty!) Very proud to have served aboard "The Fighting Lady," and SO thankful to the one who made this video. I've always wanted to go back and see the ship and go aboard once more, but this video is a nice substitute.

Great tour, thank you, This is a must see and great historical ship that served our country!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Great tour!! I came back from vacation a couple of days ago and spent the whole day at Patriots Point. I had to pull this up. You covered everything and did it WELL. The first time I saw the Yorktown in real life i was in awe at how huge it is. Go America!!

It's amazing how much machinery, wiring and electronics are packed into those ships. That ship was designed by hand. No computers to help design anything in those days.

My Dad was on the Yorktown in World War 2. He would go down every year after it was decommissioned for a work party when he and his shipmates would I guess do work on the ship. I have visited many times. When he passed away my mom and I went down for the yearly Yorktown reunion and his ashes were scattered next to the yorktown

I was on the Lex, 74-77, and this is a great video of the USS Yorktown. Wow the History this Ship has.

Thank you for showing us the very deep inside the machine room of the ship.

When I was in boy scouts we had the chance to sleep on this ship for a week it was very cool. We also took the ferry to fort sumter. It was by far the most memorable thing that happened in boy scouts.

My dad lived in the Charleston area for many years and I vacationed in the Beaufort SC area years ago. Anytime I was in the area I would make it a point to go tour the Yorktown. 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤.

I had the pleasure of visiting the Yorktown several years back. I must say, your video, and you, are a better tour than I got when I was there in person.

I've spent several hours on this ship performing various local TV and news productions, including the 2017 solar eclipse, and yet I haven't even seen a fraction of what you've shown here. Thanks for such a great video.

It sucks to see the ship in a worsening condition. I took a tour down deep in the ship. Rust and asbestos everywhere, old equipment falling apart, rooms with missing floors, anchor room an absolute mess, and more. It would be awesome if the ship were to be fully restored.

Thank you for the great video. My grandfather was electrician for the navy and was at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. He arrived there in November and my grandmother, aunt age 9, and mom, age 7, were supposed to join him at Christmas time which of course didn’t happen due to the war. I enjoyed the video tour. Thanks again.

The A-3 aircraft like they are displaying there on the USS Yorktown, which is the largest on display, operated from the Essex class carriers. They were onboard the USS Hancock when I was stationed there with VF-24.

You did a great job with the narration and tour thanks it was like I was really there.

The USS Yorktown was the last carrier I served aboard as an aviator in Anti-Sub Squadron 24 (VS-24) which was part of Air Group 56 (CAG-56) until I was transferred to NAS Cubi in the Philippines in 1969. She had been a west coast ship which meant that almost if not all crew accommodations were air conditioned unlike our previous carrier the USS Randolph (CVS15) which only had senior officer and chiefs quarters air conditioned. It made a big difference since most of our work was the the mid Atlantic area. The open platform at the 5:20 mark overlooking the flight deck had the nickname of "buzzards roost" on the Essex class carriers. Many Aviators who had the opportunity would go up to observe flight ops and yet be out of the way. I don't recall going up on the Yorktown, but as a Nugget (new young aviator in first operations squadron) in the fall of '67, I went up there many times to observe the recovery of our squadrons aircraft. There were usually 3-4 of us. Our sister squadron the the air group did the same for their operations (we alternated patrol sessions). What the narrator calls a C-2 at the 7:56 mark is actually an S-2E the ASW patrol aircraft that operated from the Yorktown in the '60s and the aircraft I flew. The give away from the front is the search light and the more narrow fuselage. (The reciprocated engine powered C-1 has an appearance from the fuselage that it was a fat boy. The C-2 is a turbo prop and is much larger. While the Essex class carriers are smaller than the current nuclear powered carriers, they are NOT one quarter of the size. The Essex class carriers were 888 feet long and with the angled flight deck displaced roughly 42,000 tons in operating trim. The current carriers are a little over 1000 feet long and displace almost 100,000 tons in operating trim. The flight deck is about twice the area of the Essex class carriers which were about 30,000 tons in WWII as straight deck carriers.

The USS NORTH CAROLINA BB55 was a good ship to visit as well

My Grandpa was on this ship in 1943. I hope to get his records soon.

I did duty on CV-64, the Connie. Great video, thanks

Great tour, thank you.

I still remember my field trip to the Yorktown

I've been to the Intrepid museum twice, and Battleship Cove since I was a kid. Now I'm looking to visit other museum ships along the eastern seaboard like North Carolina, Alabama, and Yorktown.

Great video thank you ❤

Great video

We spent the night on the Yorktown when I was in the Boy Scouts it was truly an awesome experience back in the early 90's

Great movie :) Nice museum.

I served on the Lexington, in #2 Fireroom, @ 18:44 Camera moves towards the escape trunk... That was one of the very few cool places, the senior watch stander in the fireroom, the BTOW would sit there in the breeze from the cold are being pulled into the space. Occasionally an off going watchstander would dump a bucket of water down the escape trunk and douse whoever was sitting there. Good times.

I remember this from when I was a kid. It had a distinct smell to it. I'm not sure if they do this now, but we slept and ate where they had. I remember seeing a stain from someone's bloody nose on my sheets, and as a dumb kid, I thought that a WWII soldier had a battle injury and slept on the same bed. It was a massive ship, especially for a little 6 year old.

0:09 After a bit of research I discovered that the oldest aircraft carrier afloat is actually the CV-16 Lexington, When CV-10 Yorktown was ordered her construction in a shipyard in Virginia didn't make any real headway since CV-9 Essex was being built first whereas CV-16 Lexington was being built at a different shipyard in Massachusetts and was the first of that batch of Essex class to be built at that yard. I know it doesn't make much sense but when you see yourself it turns out different shipyards were working on Essex class carriers in batches with Cv's 9 to 15 being built in Virginia and Cv's 16 to 21 being built in Massachusetts.

I remember going on this for a week in boy scouts it was the coolest thing!

It's impossible to imagine that these things were thought up and built and there were so many of them that are sitting on a bottom of the ocean

USS Laffey's legendary action off Okinawa is worth reading about.

Thanks! I really enjoyed your video since we can’t travel anymore.

Decent video!

Probably the most complete WW2 warship still afloat. A true national memorial.

I love the "fly in" at the beginning! Next time, will they let you do a mock Carrier landing?

Just a quick note. 'Essex'-class carriers Hornet, Intrepid and Lexington are all floating museums as well. But there are some major differences when you look at them from almost any perspective, pier, drone or interior tour. Some were modified for different missions in the post-WWII years, and one, Lexington, operated all the way until 1991, retiring at the ripe old age of 48 from her duties as the Navy's training carrier used to qualify new Navy pilots during their intermediate and advanced flight training in those orange/white trainers you see flying all over the Gulf Coast from Texas to Mississippi and Florida all the way down to the Keys sometimes, although I don't know for sure if they still have to occasionally base out of Key West for CARQUALS in the winter months. Some of the ships were used as recovery vessels for space mission splashdowns and some of them were used for some years as Anti-submarine warfare aircraft ops (ASW). They all are fabulously rich in history.

I went on the ship back in the late 99's I remembered playing with the ainti aircraft guns on the deck and going on a sub right next to it

One of the things I found interesting is in the pilot ready room the chairs all had built in ashtrays. I am 5'11"and i had to stoop in the pilot ready room, i think most pilots may have been shorter to save fuel. Or maybe men were just shorter back then.

Ranger, CV-4 survived, and was scrapped. Essex, CV-9 survived, and lasted into the 1970s.

The sub was a neat tour as well when i went also there was a coast guard cutter when i went as well. Were they still open for tours when you went?

Just visited the YORKTOWN in April.

Just wanted to say this...the Saratoga cv3 was sunk..but the Saratoga cv60 which i served was decommissioned in 1994 and scrapped

1:31 i like how they have the duck icon next to the "aircraft destroyed on ground" sign, its cool that they acknowledge that the planes were "sitting ducks"

6:57 is an new added handicap elevator.

I used to be so confused because of how close this carrier was built to the famous Yorktown which sunk not even a year earlier

Ive stayed on that ship for boy scouts. Yes, i mean slept on it. Twice, in fact.

Thanks for the video Sir. Is there a part two? I plan on visiting the Midway in San Diego some time. I toured the battleship Texas, wow could not believe how old that ship was. All the battles she won.

I would've loved to see a Lexington class or an essex class carrier and bay class escort carriers still in their ww2 configuration.

Going to Privately tour the USS Yorktown was the cofounder of tunnels to towers

TBM means manufactured by GM, TBF means manufactured by Grumman. Every manufacturer had a different letter code so U was for Vought, F was for Grumman, D was for Douglas.

Gene Roddenberry Star Trek original 1701 the name was Yorktown but it got replaced Enterprise I hope someday Yorktown in Star Trek

While telling about the Aircraft You called the S2 a C2 The C2 is cargo and people transport (COD) the S2 is AntiSubmarine Warfare The S2 & C1 look alike but the S2 has the search light on the Starboard Wing

I toured the Yorktown in 2015. It was really cool! I wished more of it were open. I seem to remember the engine room being closed along with some other areas. I have no idea why.

It's amazing how big the ship really is! The hangar is really long wow!

I got to tour all 3 ships docked there with my father and Son

I am Really bummed they didnt save the Entertrise. It was the top ship od WW2.

Saratoga, Enterprise and Ranger were the only prewar carriers to survive WW ll. The first Yorktown was lost at Midway. Seems strange to mention CV-10 among the surviving prewar carriers.

the M in TBM refers to the manufacturer.

I remember visiting this museum when I graduated High School. would really like to visit it again. one thing I do wish they would stop doing in painting the inside of the canopies of the planes. it ruins them. The Trackers did fly from Yorktown when she was a subhunter. so did the skyhawk. the Intruder, F-14 and them did not but several others did

That's 20 mins from where I live my uncle served on the original York town

Fun fact she sank after the battle of midway 1942 they sank the 4 carriers from the Japanese navy and yourktown sank after the sub attack I'm surprised that they made a replica of the ship and the older ships survived

Halsey tried to raise money to save CV-6, unsuccessfully. That was a 1.1 anti aircraft mount

Watch the video “Fighting Lady” by Edward Steichen from 1944 about WW2 missions of USS Yorktown (on youtube).

why is this B-25 Mitchel not on the Hornet already?

As someone as in South Carolina RN i can see from my hotel

I toured the USS Lexington in corpus Christi and I'm surprised to see how similar the Yorktown and Lexington are because I went everywhere on the Lexington and a few places I wasn't supposed to go but one thing I wish that they would do is to open up all areas of the ship I don't know why they don't do that they should just leave the whole ship open so people can see every nook and cranny but they box it up and the tours really ain't that great. Is the Yorktown floating or is she sitting on the bottom like that USS Lexington is in corpus Christi?

The intrepid still survives too

I was here on a Cadet trip for March break. We came from Canada and got to stay aboard for 2 weeks. Just wanna say to anyone who's served, idk how the fuck you ever stomached grits, but good work.

I got to stay on the Yorktown for a weekend a long time ago in Boy Scouts we got to sleep and eat on the shit it was a great time

So we’ve got 2500-3500ft carriers now? C’mon man. Running just off memory, & before coffee, I’m wanting to say the largest known currently would be the the Ford/Vinson runnin about 1200ft roughly.

It was a crime to scrap CV-6, it deserved the same reverence given to the Constitution or the 2nd generation Constellation. The Enterprise was America's greatest warship in my opinion and it's not even close.

That C-2 was a sub hunting aircraft.

at 12:09 to12:10 you can hear something or someone say "HELLO"... does anyone hear it too...?

I though the Yorktown was sunken.

"i need this ship, idm if you patch the deck with wood, yorktown will sail in 72 hours"

I was station 1961to1964

not as good as the USS midway tour but its still nice. Keith from GA

Too bad they didn't save the Enterprize. Like they returned a couple of A A Guns. Thanks.

@21:36 "..a lot of dental chairs on board." Maybe all of those Coke machines ...waddda u think?

The USS Intrepid CVS-11 survived WWII and I served aboard her in the Vietnam war.

There is allso the career midway

.it Will Be Saturday August 12,2023.😐.

the f-14 tomcat is my number one favorite navel plane

What is that blue flag?

That poor ship, she looks like she needs a lot of work done. She’s kitted out, too, with a lot of kitschy nonsense, I’d have loved to see what she actually looked like back in the day, maybe with a better representative fleet of planes that actually could’ve flown from her. Someone needs to remind SC that they should really find and fund their history guys. Hell, Texas too, the USS Texas is barely afloat herself. neither seem to spend their money too wisely.

The Yorktown sank during the battle of Midway...

Ww3

The uss yorktown was sunk though As it was being towed back to pearl harbor and Japanese submarine snuck up and torpedoed it

Never Visit U.S.S.INTREPID Tour not ownly go inside Ship You are allowed go into engine room It Band Public Years now Open to Public

i am looking for info on the shenedoah-AD26, my dad was on that one