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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.
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) [34] USS Ling: United States New Jersey: Hackensack: United States: 1943 Balao class: Submarine
Preserved at USS Lexington Museum on the Bay— Corpus Christi, Texas, USA [31] CV-17 Bunker Hill: Essex: 25 May 1943 9 January 1947 3 years, 229 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 Hancock: Essex (extended bow) 15 April 1944 30 January 1976 31 years ...
USS Lexington (CC-1), a Lexington-class battlecruiser, converted to CV-2 in 1922; USS Lexington (CV-2), a Lexington-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1927 and sunk in 1942; USS Lexington (CV-16), an Essex-class aircraft carrier in commission from 1943–1991, now a museum in Corpus Christi, Texas
USS Lexington Museum on the Bay, 2914 North Shoreline Blvd. 27°48′54″N 97°23′20″W / 27.815°N 97.3889°W / 27.815; -97.3889 ( USS Lexington Corpus Christi
142675: USS Lexington Museum of The Bay, Corpus Christi, Texas. [64] 142678: City of Purdy, Purdy, Missouri. [citation needed] 142717: Court House Square, Beeville, Texas. [citation needed] 142741: National Vietnam War Museum, Orlando, Florida. [citation needed] 142761: Selfridge Military Air Museum and Air Park, Selfridge Air National Guard ...
154548 - USS Lexington Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas [19] 154550 - Air Victory Museum, Medford, New Jersey [20] 154554 - San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, San Diego, California. [citation needed] A-7C TV A-7D Corsair II in the Southeast Asia War Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. 156734 - NAS Fallon ...
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 ...