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I don't think the Yorktown Class carried harpoons let alone cruised the coast of Libya in '86. :think:

 

At approximately 4:30 p.m. (EST), a second Libyan patrol boat approached U.S. forces, and was driven off by U.S. Navy aircraft. Shortly after 6:00 p.m. (EST), a third Libyan patrol craft approached the USS YORKTOWN at a high rate of speed; the YORKTOWN fired two Harpoon missiles, which hit the Libyan craft

above from Global security dot com

 

At around 2155, two A-6Es from VA-55 attacked a Nanuchka-class corvette which was heading towards the USS Yorktown (CG-48), prompting USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20) to open fire with a Harpoon missile that struck the Libyan vessel and subsequently started a fire; the corvette survived the attack and was towed back to Benghazi.[citation needed]

above from wiki

 

USS Yorktown CG-48

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