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USS Lexington-- The-Blue-Ghost' -- Corpus Christi Bay On 26 November 1991, the US Navy turned Lexington over to the City of Corpus Christi. On 15 June 1992, the ship was donated as a museum and now operates as the "USS Lexington Museum on the Bay" at 2914 North Shoreline Boulevard, Corpus Christi, Texas.
USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", [1] was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which essentially terminated all new battleship and ...
The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy. [A 1] While these six vessels were requested in 1911 as a reaction to the building by Japan of the KongÅ class, the potential use for them in the U.S. Navy came from a series of studies by the Naval War College which stretched over several years and predated the ...
USS Lexington: United States Texas: Corpus Christi: United States: 1942 Essex class: Aircraft carrier: Sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku (the last remaining carrier that attacked Pearl Harbor, and the ship that sank Lexington's predecessor, USS Lexington) [33] USS Ling: United States New Jersey: Hackensack: United States: 1943 Balao ...
Lexington: Essex: 17 February 1943 8 November 1991 48 years, 264 days Preserved at USS Lexington Museum on the Bay— Corpus Christi, Texas, USA [31] CV-17 Bunker Hill: Essex: 25 May 1943 9 July 1947 4 years, 45 days Scrapped in 1973 [32] [33] [34] CV-18 Wasp: Essex: 24 November 1943 1 July 1972 28 years, 220 days Scrapped in 1973 [35] CV-19 ...
The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3). The ships were built on hulls originally laid down as battlecruisers after World War I , but under the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, all U.S. battleship and ...