On our way home from Florida we went to visit the USS Yorktown (CV10) in Charleston, SC. She is an amazing ship, with an incredible past. Glad they chose to preserve her as a museum ship. The size is overwhelming! This is the first time I was able to go in the bowels of a ship to the engine room, and it was awesome. The boilers were huge. You had to descend 4 stories of tight stairways to cramped quarters where all the machinery and controls were. You walked on catwalks. What a sacrifice was made by the sailors that kept these machines going to keep the ship alive. Then to see the hangar deck, it was so open! Just such a large space. Then the flight deck. Looked bigger than my entire yard. What a ship. We were even able to see Fort Sumpter from the stern of the ship!
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