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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 Lexington-class 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 ...
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
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 ...
The first USS Lexington of the Thirteen Colonies was a brig purchased in 1776. The Lexington was an 86-foot (26 m) two-mast wartime sailing ship for the fledgling Continental Navy of the Colonists during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).
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 ...
The second USS Lexington was a sloop in the United States Navy built at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, in 1825; and commissioned on 11 June 1826, Master Commandant William B. Shubrick in command. The new sloop was first stationed off Labrador to protect American fishing vessels.
The Falklands Expedition occurred in late 1831 when the United States Navy warship USS Lexington was dispatched to investigate the seizure of three whalers at the settlement of Puerto Luis founded in the ruins of the former Spanish penal colony of Puerto Soledad by Luis Vernet. Vernet had sought to control sealing in the islands and seized the ...