USS Yorktown (CV-1940)

 

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The four ship Yorktown class I am adding to the US Navy is to slot in between the improved Wasp class and the production line Essex class. So what improvements can I give the Wasp to make those ships even better. The first thing that comes to mind is an enclosed bow. Since the Treaties are now defunct there would be no need for weight saving, and these ships really can be 'improved'. A bigger hull for increased hangar capacity. Higher speed for increased flexibility. Better protection for increased survivability. Doing the enclosed bow for the Yorktown's, I may have to revisit the Essex class and do a bit of a rethink, redraw.

These four ships are still under construction when WW2 breaks out in 1939. The US Navy follows closely the way the Royal Navy carriers are used and what it can learn from the 'observers' it has on board Royal Navy ships. The Royal Navy ships confirm the ideas the that the US Navy has earmarked to put into the Yorktown class. Bigger, better , faster!



And that is what I have done. Longer, wider, an overall increase in size and displacement.


 

Displacement
  • 28,800 tons standard
  • 32,500 tons full load
Length
  • 862 ft overall length
Beam
  • 94 ft at waterline
  • 116 ft width at flight deck
Draft
  • 26 ft (7.9 m)
  • (24 ft 4 in (7.42 m) design draft)
Propulsion
  • 10 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 4-shaft Parsons geared turbines 140,000 shp
Speed 32 knots
Range 12,500 nmi (23,200 km)
Complement 2,300
Sensors and
processing systems		 SC radar
Armament
Armor
  • Belt: 2.5–4 in (6.4–10.2 cm) Deck: 2.5 in
  • Tower: 4 inches (10 cm)
Aircraft carried 90 (internal)
Aviation facilities
  • 2 flight deck catapults
  • 3 aircraft elevators
Notes:
  • USS Yorktown
  • USS Enterprise
  • USS Valley Forge
  • USS Shangri-La

Sourced from Wikipaedia, mangled by me.






Original internals of the Yorktown class before I made it bigger.

 

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