USS Yorktown explained

USS Yorktown may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

• , a 16-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1840 (sunk in 1850)
• , the lead commissioned in 1889 (sold in 1921)
• , the lead commissioned in 1937 (sunk in 1942)
• , an commissioned in 1943 (museum ship since 1975)
• , a commissioned in 1984 (undergoing scrapping)