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Battle of Midway: Repairing the Yorktown After the Battle of the Coral Sea | Defense Media Network
A history of the emergency repairs conducted on the USS Yorktown after the Battle of Cora Sea in order for the ship to participate in the Battle of Midway.www.defensemedianetwork.com
The next morning, after Nimitz had cut orders voiding the safety rule of spending a day purging her tanks of stored aviation fuel,
To satisfy the enormous power needs of the repair crews the Navy contacted Leslie Hicks, president of the Hawaiian Electric Company, who arranged a series of rolling blackouts in Honolulu. Only the most urgent repairs were made. Instead of individually fixing the hull’s ruptured seams, an enormous steel plate was welded over the damaged section.
On the morning of May 30, more patched than repaired but fit enough to fight, Yorktown steamed out of Pearl Harbor
Sometimes.. good enough is.. good enough
Well, it helped that they were just going to sink it a week later anyway.