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Lexington in her original configuration, November 1943. The ship was laid down as Cabot on 15 July 1941 by Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts.In May 1942, USS Lexington (CV-2), which had been built in the same shipyard two decades earlier, was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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 ...
1 × Aircraft catapult. 2 × Elevators. 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 ...
Battle of the Coral Sea. Part of Operation Mo of South West Pacific theatre of World War II. The American aircraft carrier USS Lexington explodes on 8 May 1942, several hours after being damaged by a Japanese carrier air attack. Date. 4–8 May 1942. Location. Coral Sea, between Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
English: View of the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) with aircraft of Carrier Air Group 16 (CVG-16) landing, in November 1943. Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of a Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of Bombing Squadron 16 (VB-16), as a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 16 (VF-16) lands and a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 16 (VT-16 ...
Description USS Lexington (AVT-16) putting out to sea in Pensacola, Florida, (USA), in 1987.jpg. English: The U.S. Navy training carrier USS Lexington (AVT-16) putting out to sea in Pensacola, Florida, (USA), circa on 20 January 1987. The ship was based in Pensacola and served as a training ship for naval aviators until 1991. Location. InfoField.
English: A mushroom cloud rises after a heavy explosion on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2), 8 May 1942. This is probably the great explosion from the detonation of torpedo warheads stowed in the starboard side of the hangar, aft, that followed an explosion amidships at 1727 hrs.