Patriots Point - The USS Yorkstown

Wednesday I visited the USS Yorkstown, built in 1943 and named after a ship that was sunk by the dirty, rotten japs at the Battle of Midway. The ship is located at Patriots Point, which also holds a submarine, a submarine memorial, a destroyer (temporarily closed) and a replica of a Vietnam-era military camp. The ship also contains a museum devoted to the winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The Yorkstown was known as "The Fighting Lady" and served with distinction in the Pacific during the war against the Krauts, the Greaseballs and the Japs the second world war. Later on, she spent several years outside Vietnam during the war against the commie gooks that war, before picking up the Apollo 8 crew and then finally being decommissioned in 1970. She's been a museum ship since 1975.

I spent three happy hours there, taking pics of the ship, the planes, the submarine and the camp, and also riding the flight simulator. I've divided the pics into four installments, but all of 'em can be seen here. If you want to see just the pics of the USS Yorkstown, look here.

She's a purdy lady, ain't she?


Guns made by those peace-loving Swedes.


Echoing Lincoln.


The bunk beds for the crew.


Uhm. Get WHAT up for your navy? Enquiring minds want to know.


Oh, nevermind the previous question.


Bread machine in the kitchen. Mmmmm, bread.


An old dentist's chair that possible did double duty as a torture device, by the looks of it.


Surgery.


From the navigation room.


View from the bridge.