USS Yorktown

The USS Yorktown, an Essex-class aircraft carrier, is a National Historic Landmark moored in Charleston harbor. The vessel was commissioned in 1943, and in the 1950s, it was converted under the SCB-27A program as an attack aircraft carrier, CVA-10. An angled deck was added in 1955. The USS Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and donated to the Patriots Point Development Authority in 1975. It was relocated to Charleston and has remained the centerpiece of Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum. In the U.S. Navy donation contract, South Carolina indicated the state planned to preserve and exhibit the vessel.