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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 ...
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: No public access (New Jersey Naval Museum defunct) [35] USS Lionfish: United States ...
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 ...
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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
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US Navy SeaBee Museum: California: Richmond: Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site: California: Samoa: Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum: California: San Diego: San Diego Maritime Museum: Y California: San Francisco: San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park: Y California: San Francisco: San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, USS ...
USS Lexington (CV-2) was hit by two armor-piercing bombs and two torpedoes on 8 May 1942 during the Battle of Coral Sea.After several hours of fighting fires and suffering severe internal explosions caused by leaking gasoline vapors, the ship was abandoned and scuttled with a loss of 216 men.