USS Yorktown (CV-10)

The ship now moored in Charleston Harbor started as something else — laid down as *Bon Homme Richard*, renamed mid-construction to honor a carrier sunk at Midway. Commissioned in April 1943, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) fought across the Pacific, later served off Vietnam, and recovered the Apollo 8 astronauts from the ocean before decommissioning. Today she anchors Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, where visitors can board her and walk the flight deck.