LEGENDARY CARRIERS

摘要

The Yorktown design was developed during the late 1920s and early 1930s, with the US Congress authorising construction of new aircraft carriers in 1933 using the new plans. Contracts for the first two of the type, USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise, were awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding on 3 August 1933. The third ship, USS Hornet, was ordered on 30 March 1939 under the terms of the Naval Expansion Act.