USS Lexington

USS Lexington, nicknamed "Lady Lex", 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 new battleship and battlecruiser construction. The ship entered service in 1928 and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet for her entire career. Lexington and her sister ship, Saratoga, were used to develop and refine carrier tactics in a series of annual exercises before World War II. On more than one occasion these included successfully staged surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The ship's turbo-electric propulsion system allowed her to supplement the electrical supply of Tacoma, Washington, during a drought in late 1929 to early 1930. She also delivered medical personnel and relief supplies to Managua, Nicaragua, after an earthquake in 1931.

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CV-2; CV-2
length 270.6 metre, speed 33.25 knot, mass 38746 ton, mass 36000 tonne, beam 32.1 metre, draft 7.4 metre, 12 5"/25 caliber single gun mount, 4 8"/55 caliber twin gun mount, 8 cannon,
aircraft carrier, Lexington-class aircraft carrier, shipwreck, battlecruiser, Fore River Shipyard, United States Navy,

Location: -15.3333, 155.5, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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1939-09-01T00:00:00Z

World War II Q362

1942-05-04T00:00:00Z

Battle of the Coral Sea

2018-03-01T00:00:00Z

wreck found

1942-06-24T00:00:00Z

striking

1925-10-03T00:00:00Z

ship launching

1942-05-08T00:00:00Z

shipwrecking

1917-01-01T00:00:00Z

order

1921-01-08T00:00:00Z

keel laying

1927-12-14T00:00:00Z

ship commissioning

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Frameless

USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) steams past USS Lexington (CV-2) in May 1930

Loening OL flying over USS Lexington (CV-2) c1930

USS Langley (CV-1), USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) docked at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, circa 1930 (NH 95037)

80-CF-21126-7 USS Lexington (CV-2)

USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) off Oahu c1930

USS Lexington (CV-16) steams through floating ice in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts (USA), on 17 February 1943 (80-G-35657)

T4M-1s on Board USS Lexington

USSLexingtonCV2Launching

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 1932

USS Lexington CV-2 19-N-001-003-008

Type	Subtype	Description	Notes	Source

link	page	Drachinifel page^@		Wikidata
link	page	Drachinifel page^@		Wikidata
link	page	uboat.net page^@		Wikidata
site	shipwreck	USS Lexington	Lexington-class aircraft carrier, shipwreck, battlecruiser, aircraft carrier	Wikidata
commons	image	USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) steams past USS Lexington (CV-2) in May 1930		Commons
commons	image	Loening OL flying over USS Lexington (CV-2) c1930		Commons
commons	image	USS Langley (CV-1), USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) docked at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, circa 1930 (NH 95037)		Commons
commons	image	80-CF-21126-7 USS Lexington (CV-2)		Commons
commons	image	USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) off Oahu c1930		Commons
commons	image	USS Lexington (CV-16) steams through floating ice in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts (USA), on 17 February 1943 (80-G-35657)		Commons
commons	image	T4M-1s on Board USS Lexington		Commons
commons	image	USSLexingtonCV2Launching		Commons
commons	image	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 1932		Commons
commons	image	USS Lexington CV-2 19-N-001-003-008		Commons

USS Lexington

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