YORKTOWN TRIP

U.S.S. Yorktown

  • 7:00 AM-Saturday-REVEILLE

    Lights out is at 11:00 each night, reveille is at 7:00 on Saturday and Sunday . After reveille, we have until 8:00 before breakfast is served on the ship.


  • 8:00 AM-Saturday-BREAKFAST ON SHIP

    Breakfast is served on the Yorktown aircraft carrier both Saturday and Sunday. It is a good experience, to eat on the ship; and add to the feeling of living under the same conditions as those who had been stationed on the ship in the past.


    U.S.S. Yorktown
  • 9:00 AM-Saturday-TOUR OF SHIPS

    The largest portion of the trip is a tour of the ships located at Patriot's Point. There are a number of ships in the harbor: a destroyer (the Laffey), a coast guard cutter (the Ingham), a submarine (the Clamagore), in addition to the Yorktown itself. Th e boats have tours set up, with arrows directing you through the ship, or you can simply wander. The Yorktown air-craft carrier itself has seven different tours set up.

    • TOUR ONE - Living and Working Spaces
    • TOUR TWO - Engine Room
    • TOUR THREE - Flight Deck & Bridge
    • TOUR FOUR - World War II Carrier Rooms
    • TOUR FIVE - Memorial Hangar Bay, Arlington of Carrier Aviation, Yorktown Association Museum & Ship's Brig.
    • TOUR SIX - Captain & Flag Officer In-Port Quarters
    • TOUR SEVEN - Shipyard Exhibit

      In addition to the ships, the flight deck of the Yorktown is also a museum of various aircraft. The following aircraft are on display:

      U.S.S. Yorktown
      AIRCRAFT
      F4F WildcatUH-34D SeahorseE-IB Tracer
      TBM AvengerAD SkyraiderF-J Fury
      F6F HellcatA7 CorsairA-4 Skyhawk
      FG-1D CorsairF4 PhantomF-8 Crusader
      B-25 MitchellSBD DauntlessF9F Cougar
      F-11 TigerS-2E TrackerN-2 Stearman
      F-14 TomcatA-6 IntruderHUEY UH1-M
      HUEY UH1-HHUEY UH-1SH-3 Sea King
      QH-50AD.A.S.H.


      Also, adjacent to the parking lot, is a true-to-scale exhibit of a Vietnam Naval Support Base. The Support Base contains authentic weaponry, a 31-foot River Patrol Boat, a 24-foot gun, observation tower, ammunition bunker, combat information center, helic opters, and displays. As you walk up to a display, a recording will automatically play, giving you a brief explanation of the display, or playing realistic sounds to enhance the realism of the place.


    • 12:00 PM-Saturday-LUNCH ON SHIP

      Lunch is also provided on the ship as part of the tour; however, it is very simple, unlike breakfast. Everybody is given a bag lunch with a sandwich, an apple, and a can of Pepsi. Not much time and effort is put into Saturday's lunch.


    • 1:30 PM-Saturday-FORT SUMTER & HARBOR TOUR

      After lunch a small boat can be boarded , and taken through Charleston Harbor, to historic Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Fort Sumter is far different than it was during it's greatest hour when it was bombarded by shots du ring the first battle of the Civil War.The walls around the fort had been knocked down during the Civil War, and never rebuilt. In some places you can still see the cannonballs stuck in the walls. All of the buildings in the fort were destroyed in a fire during the Civil War, and later a new building was erected within the fort.


    • 7:00 PM-Saturday-DINNER ON SHIP

      Supper is also served on the Yorktown as a part of the trip.


    • 8:00 PM-Saturday-FIRE DRILL

      After the ceremony ended we had a fire drill to assure that we all knew how to exit the ship in case of a real fire.

    • 8:45 PM-Saturday-MOVIE - "FIGHTING LADY"

      At 8:45 they showed the movie "Fighting Lady" on the ship, it is a movie about the USS Yorktown, and what it had been through before being decommissioned in 1970.


    • 7:00 AM-Sunday-REVEILLE




    • 7:00 AM-Sunday-BREAKFAST ON SHIP

      Again we have breakfast on the Yorktown on Sunday, we then have a church service at 8:10 AM before departing at 9:00.


    • 9:00 AM-Sunday-LEAVE FOR HOME

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