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Thank you Devin for your reply....

I did some extra research and l found out on this website
http://www.wings-aviation.ch/24-Naval-W ... rktown.htm
That Yorktown never had VT-2 (Cv2 Lexington) but had VT-5.
So l need to change the markings...that should be side # before star

Please correct me if l'm wrong

Have a nice day
Please check also the pics of the markings of the other markings of the other squadrons

Correct. That table looks to be accurate for February through May. After Lexington was hit, some of her aircraft landed on Yorktown, so post-battle you could have some of her birds on deck, but I don't recall how many or of what type.

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USS Yorktown. Model built for the Seiji Maruyama’s 1968 “Yamamoto Isoroku” movie.
The photo was taken in the Toho Studios.

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Dear all l need your help you will see here the picture of a 50' motor launch l need from you if you have any picture of those launches secured on the deck of the carrier...
Thanks in advance
Pic for reference

Greg

the 50 footers would be in the boat bays plus 2 x 40 footers & a 35 footer while other 40 footers would be parked alongside the starboard side of the island.
CV-5 USS Yorktown Booklet of General Plans (1940) https://archive.org/details/cv5bogp1940

Thanks FFG-7for your reply...but l need to see the ropes or other means that secured the launches if you can help l really appriciate

does your pe set include boat cradles?

Sorry FFG-7for the late reply, yes they are all on their cradles

take a look at these links that shows different ships' boats.
https://www.alamy.com/a-detachment-of-u ... rchtype=0/
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=103218&start=840

Thanks a lot for your help

I'm gathering resources for building Yorktown mid to late 1940. I'm hoping to get answers to the following questions:

Did Yorktown have docking keels? If so, are there available plans that show these?

Does anybody know of available aftermarket for 1/200 water cooled Browning .50 cals? Found a somewhat acceptable STL file for this and will have a try at printing them

Does anybody know of available aftermarket for 1/200 quad 1.1" guns? Found Veteran Models for these and have them ordered

Thanks in advance for any and all advice and help!

Patrick

Here's a set of plans for Yorktown.

https://maritime.org/doc/plans/

Guba, I already linked him to a bigger set CV-5 USS Yorktown Booklet of General Plans (1940) https://archive.org/details/cv5bogp1940 & he has a set from Floating Drydock. this is on another site we are both on.

None of the plans I have show external docking keels. There may have been some internal structure serving part of that function, but there was nothing outside of the hull other than the bilge keels.

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I really appreciate your response. Thank you!

I looked over those plans. Really appreciate the links. Thank you!

I contacted Devin at cv5yorktown.com and he looked through the giant book of plans from Maryland Silver Co. and found nothing resembling docking keels. We're at the same conclusion. In fact, he stated "It looks to me as if what they used for ‘keels’ are the prop skegs, and the flat portions of the hull, but I don’t see any specific protrusions that one would call docking keels."

Appreciate your efforts in looking. Thank you!

I emailed this docking block plan to Patrick. As Tracy said, I don't see any docking keels. It looks as if the shaft skegs are used for some of the blocking, but otherwise the hull simply rested on the docking blocks.

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Hi guys,

I’m working on a 1940 time frame Yorktown and I’m currently reworking the stern flight deck. Specifically I’m trying to build the walkway that’s labeled "Walkway For Ramp Lights" on page 7 of the Booklet of General Plans dated February 1940. Or the circled item in the attached picture below. Are there any scale drawings of the stern of the Yorktown or Enterprise for that matter that show this item looking horizontally at the stern?

My apologies if this has been answered somewhere in the previous pages.

TIA and happy modeling.

Mark B.

3rd floor, NARA II in College Park - the Cartographic plans section. There are 26 rolls of microfilm, it's where at least some of the Maryland Silver plans came from, but there is so much more.

I went through 5-6 rolls a decade or so ago and there is no index and a LOT of fun stuff, but I didn't have time for all of them and I don't remember seeing plans for that catwalk in the rolls I went through.

That is your best bet.

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