Calling all USS Yorktown CV-5 fans

[MartinJQuinn]

I don't know of any 1/200 CV-5 specific sets available, which is one of the reasons I sold mine. Pontos is currently working on a set for CV-6 (they are posting updates on their progress on Facebook).

[tegunn]

Thanks Martin! I'm not about to lay down her keel so I do have time. It's good that Pontos is putting one out for the Enterprise. I was mulling over getting the Enterprise MK1/KA set. There's not that much difference between the two, that being the island/bridge. Nothing that a little scratch building can't handle if n
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[tegunn]

Hey Martin, could you share a link? I'm not finding it..

[MartinJQuinn]

Ah - it's actually on Keumho Kim's page, which I guess is one and the same as the Pontos page: https://www.facebook.com/pontosmodel.

Here's a rendering of the Mk33 directors they are working on:

[Ottawarignjig]

Why do some drawings of the ship show rigging extending from the bow to the top of the island and down to the stern? Was this always there? Is it just so fine a wire that it doesn�t show up in pictures?

[Timmy C]

Why do some drawings of the ship show rigging extending from the bow to the top of the island and down to the stern? Was this always there? Is it just so fine a wire that it doesn�t show up in pictures?

If you look at a high-rez set of drawings, like these General Arrangement ones, you see that those lines are labelled "Dressing Lines". That means they're used when dressing the ship, i.e. putting all those little signal flags along it during special occasions for ceremonial purposes. They serve no real operational function and would be taken down in most circumstances.

[Ottawarignjig]

Thank you so much for the link and the info! This is infinitely helpful.

[Mgunns]

Does anyone have the Robert Cressman book "That Gallant Ship: USS Yorktown CV-5"?

If memory serves (and it may not!), there is a passage in that book (pretty sure it is that book) that describes the crew being ordered to strip all of the paint from interior bulkheads and overheads during the transit back to Pearl Harbor after Lexington's loss at Coral Sea. I don't recall if the stripping included the hangar deck bulkheads and overhead but don't think so. I do remember reading that some anecdotal reports from Lexington survivors indicated that fires on Lex were being fed by the paint on bulkheads and overheads and very difficult to extinguish. So Yorktown's crew was highly motivated to get the job done rather than burn in fires fed by (dry) paint and worked very quickly. The manner of Lexington's loss was described in the book as scaring the hell out of Yorktown's crew. The passage described that the amount of paint being removed and shoveled overboard was considerable.

The book describes Yorktown's crew as a happy crew with great pride in their ship. Crewmembers are quoted as saying her captain violently and impressively maneuvered her "like a destroyer" when evading torpedoes and bombs at Coral Sea, so much so that the crew had difficulty in keeping their footing during sudden turns.

Can anyone confirm or deny I am thinking of the right book? It was one borrowed from a library many years ago and is no longer available there. It was an excellent, reasonably well-illustrated read and I'd like to own a copy of the book I remember, which I think was the Cressman book, but may be wrong.

The speed at which Yorktown's crew worked to remove the paint reminds me of an old Army story. People sometimes asked how long it takes to dig a foxhole through tough tree roots with a small entrenching tool. Generally, a very long time but the digging happens a lot quicker when people are shooting at you.

I believe the book you are referring to is "Crossing the Line". I am not 100 percent sure, but I remember the author remarking how prescient the CO was to have the paint removed. The author was a tail gunner on an SBD. If memory serves me correctly.

[ModelMonkey]

I believe the book you are referring to is "Crossing the Line". I am not 100 percent sure, but I remember the author remarking how prescient the CO was to have the paint removed. The author was a tail gunner on an SBD. If memory serves me correctly.

That sounds right. I remember that comment about the captain, too. The book was captivating so I'll be looking for it.

Thanks, Mark!

[TF17Greg]

Dear all l need your help...

I have to make the hangar and the kit makes it as a straight wall...but l saw in the Enterprise and the
Hornet as a slope wall... so l found a picture of Yorktown�s hangar during the battle of Midway and it looks like also a slope wall...
So my question is...am l seeing things or am l right??
Here are the pics and also you will see in the plans where the wall is the phrase "slope BLH a.t.� would this mean slope bulkhead airtight???
Thank you and have a nice evening
Greg

[TF17Greg]

yes as that is for the ship's funnel.

Thanks DavidP

[William Smallshaw]

Greg,

Yes, the uptakes from the boilers were airtight to keep hot exhaust gases, from escaping the stack, exiting into the interior of the ship. They were most likely insulated as well to keep the gases hot as they went up the stack. Both aspects of the design, airtight and isolated, provided a proper draw of air through the boiler, increasing efficiency of the combustion.

Bill

[TF17Greg]

Thanks Bill

[TF17Greg]

Dear all l need your help
l would like to put on the Carrier some signalisation flags and l found this code
HX 2 l have recieved serious damage below water line
and these are flags,
Could it be ok?

[Jeff Sharp]

Here are some views of YKTN entering Pearl in 1942.

[taskforce48]

So if the Hornet is there, is this her returning from Coral Sea?

Matt

[Captain Morgan]

So if the Hornet is there, is this her returning from Coral Sea?

Matt

The only time Hornet and Yorktown were in the same port after December 1941 was May 27-28, 1942. TF-16, USS Hornet and USS Enterprise entered Pearl on May 26 and after refueling they sortied on May 28. On May 27 TF-17, USS Yorktown entered Pearl and entered drydock 1 for refit and repair. Yorktown exited drydock on May 30 and TF-17 left to rendezvous at point luck with TF 16 just prior to the battle of Midway. I believe Yorktown and Hornet were in Norfolk together when Hornet was commissioning but Yorktown was immediately transferred to the pacific fleet arriving before the end of 1941. At the end of April Hornet was at Pearl but Yorktown and Lexington were in Tonga staying close enough to be able to stop the IJN attack of Port Moresby at the battle of Coral Sea. The pictures you show should be from May 27, since it shows the enlisted crew in whites which I've seen in numerous book/publications of her entering Pearl after Coral Sea.

[Jon C Ryckert]

USS Yorktown be surveyed by ROV.
https://nautiluslive.org/

[TF17Greg]

Dear all l need your help...
I have to do all the squadrons that were on Yorktown, this is the original post of CharlesRollinsWare
Details for Yorktown are at Coral Sea are: (all BLACK and no LSO stripes)
VF-42: SIDE large F-#, forward of Star; TAIL large # on forward fin
VB-5: SIDE large ##, rear of star
VS-5: SIDE large ##, rear of star; TAIL large S on forward fin
VT-2: SIDE large T-# rear of star
This is clear but l found some pictures of planes april/may 42...with these colors.... so l�m lost
The star should be White and blue with red dot..or just white and blue???
The LSO stripes should be there or not???
Thank u in advance for your help

[Devin]

At Coral Sea, Yorktown's airgroups still had the insignia with the red dot, and the rudder stripes.

I don't know about the LSO stripe. Enterprise around this time and at Midway had those LSO stripes on her aircraft, as evidenced in many photos, but I can't recall seeing any Yorktown aircraft with them.