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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. A MEGAtheater (similar to IMAX) was added in the forward aircraft elevator space. Lexington was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003. The ship is carefully maintained ...
USS. City of Corpus Christi. USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN-705), a Los Angeles -class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Corpus Christi, Texas. The Navy originally planned to use the name "USS Corpus Christi."
It represents a subset of the list of museum ships comprising museum ships located worldwide. Deployed to Vietnam 1968-69. Sea Scout Ship with all-female crew 1998-2020. Relocated as 1st maritime training ship on Ohio River Jan 2024. Flooded herself to aim farther during shore bombardment at the Normandy landings.
NAS Corpus Christi was commissioned by its first Commanding Officer, CAPT Alva Berhard, on March 12, 1941. The first flight training started on May 5, 1941. US Navy North American SNJ-4s warming up for training at NAS Corpus Christi circa 1943. Aviation Ordnanceman stationed at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi boarding a PBY Catalina, circa ...
Captain Leland "BT" D. Taylor. Naval Station Ingleside was a United States Navy base in Ingleside, Texas. It was on the northern shore of Corpus Christi Bay, 12 miles northeast of the city of Corpus Christi, about 130 miles south of San Antonio and approximately 170 miles southwest of Houston. This region is known as the Coastal Bend.
On 17 October and 18 December 2002, respectively, USS City of Corpus Christi and USS San Francisco arrived in Guam, completing their 14,000 nautical miles (25,928 km) inter-fleet transfer that started at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. They were the Navy's first forward-deployed and home-ported submarines.
Her post-war duty station was at Corpus Christi, Texas, until 1967. Tour ship. She was sold as government surplus and converted into a twin-deck passenger excursion vessel for Circle Line Sightseeing in New York City. Her two Winton 158-6 direct-drive diesels were replaced with two quad sets of four GM 6-71 diesels per shaft.
The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men and women each going into the Southland Conference Tournament as the No. 2 seed in their respective brackets, earning a double bye into the semifinals.. Here is ...