January 21, 1943 the aircraft carrier Yorktown CV-10 was launched. She was laid down Dec. 1, 1941, six days before the attack on Pearl Harbor as Bon Homme Richard, but renamed Yorktown on Sept. 26, 1942 in honor of the Yorktown CV-5 lost at the Battle of Midway on June 7, 1942. Both ships were built at Newport News, and both were sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President.

There was a difference though, this Yorktown launched itself. A few minutes before the scheduled launch while Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, commanding officer of CV-5 when she was lost, was speaking, Yorktown could wait no more. The huge hull, heaviest launched to date at the yard, began to slide down the ways. Without hesitation Mrs. Roosevelt sprang up and broke the bottle of champaign on her moving bows, insuring that King Neptune received his drink.

Yorktown went on to fight until the end of the war earning eleven battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation and a further five battle stars during Vietnam. She is now on display as a museum ship at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.