Yorktown departed Pearl Harbor on 20 April 1941 in company with destroyers USS Warrington DD-383 2 , USS Somers DD-381 2 , and USS Jouett DD-396 2 ; headed southeast, transited the Panama Canal on the night of 6–7 May, and arrived at Bermuda on 12 May. From that time until the United States entered the war, Yorktown conducted four patrols in the Atlantic, ranging from Newfoundland to Bermuda and logging 17642 miles steamed while enforcing American neutrality.