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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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Grumman S-2 Tracker. The Grumman S-2 Tracker (S2F prior to 1962) is the first purpose-built, single airframe anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to enter service with the United States Navy. Designed and initially built by Grumman, the Tracker was of conventional design — propeller-driven with twin radial engines, a high wing that could be ...
USNS. Corpus Christi Bay. (T-ARVH-1) , formerly. USS. Albemarle. , was a helicopter repair ship, from 1965 until 1974. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Lexington. USS Lexington may refer to these ships of the United States Navy: USS Lexington (1776), a brigantine acquired in 1776 and captured in 1777. USS Lexington (1825), a sloop-of-war in commission from 1826–1830 and 1831–1855. USS Lexington (1861), a timber-clad gunboat in commission from 1861–1865. USS Lexington II (SP-705), later ...