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After a nearly eight-month deployment, the USS Gettysburg is set to return to Naval Station Norfolk on Friday, U.S. Navy ...
Leadership of Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and Dominion Energy have signed an agreement to work together to build energy ...
Wednesday is the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide against the Japanese during World War II, ...
Local student musicians perform Taps on the USS Yorktown deck at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant to honor fallen service ...
Eighty-three years after sinking, the USS Yorktown is still revealing secrets. During an April 19 expedition, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ...
Wreckage of what is likely 1940-41 Ford Super Deluxe ‘Woody,’ in the hangar deck of USS Yorktown. (Courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue) Eighty-three years after sinking ...
Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer images the wreck of USS Yorktown during a dive on April 19 as part of the Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping expedition. NOAA Photo Two years earlier ...
The NOAA's exploration team explored the ship's hangar deck and discovered a mural, titled "A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown," painted on the wall of one of the ship's elevator shafts.
According to the Miami Herald, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ship Okeanos Explorer was exploring the final resting place of the USS Yorktown, a United States Navy ...
Recent explorations of the wreck of the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean uncovered a downed aircraft, and, surprisingly, a 1940s Ford Woody Wagon! She was crippled in that battle ...
A mysterious military vehicle located three miles underwater aboard the shipwrecked World War II-era USS Yorktown wasn’t the only shocking discovery made by researchers over the weekend.
NOAA Ocean Exploration sent a remotely operated camera inside the USS Yorktown on April 19 and 20, the agency said in a news release. The 806-foot-long aircraft carrier, nicknamed the "Fighting ...