Victory at Sea - USS Yorktown blackseas-holdfast HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun

HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line with a sleek hull

After further actions in the Atlantic in 1941

From the early battles for Leningrad and Sevastopol to the tank clash of Kursk and the bitter urban warfare of Stalingrad

Principal service: 1943–45

A typical team consisted of a lance corporal gunner

Victory at Sea - USS Yorktown blackseas-holdfast HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gunThe Yorktown class of aircraft carrier were built in a series of three. Of those, only the USS Enterprise survived the war, with the USS Yorktown sunk during the Battle of Midway, and the USS Hornet during the Battle of Santa Cruz. USS Yorktown was comissioned in 1937, and named for the battle of 1781. After Pearl Harbor, USS Yorktown transferred to the Pacific and took part in some of the first American offences of the war around the Gilbert and