USS Lexington (CV-2) was originally designated CC-1; laid down as a battle cruiser 8 January 1921 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; authorized to be completed as an aircraft carrier 1 July 1922; launched 3 October 1925; sponsored by Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy; and commissioned 14 December 1927, Capt. Albert W. Marshall in command ...

Jan 11, 2022 · USS Lexington (CV-2) was commissioned on 14 December 1927 with Captain Albert W. Marshall in command. The ship was originally to be built as a battle cruiser, but was later authorized to be completed as an aircraft carrier. After fitting and shakedown, Lexington made way for the U.S. west coast where she joined the fleet at San Pedro, California. While there, she conducted flight training ...

Aug 4, 2016 · The United States Navy began building six battlecruisers—the Lexington class—after World War I but those ships, as well as three British and four Japanese battlecruisers, were cancelled under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922. The American battlecruisers Lexington and Saratoga were later completed as aircraft carriers.

At about 5:30 PM, as the abandonment of Lexington was nearing completion, a large explosion tore through her hangar amidships. Fires were now "roasting" torpedo warheads stowed in the after hangar, and these detonated in a spectacular blast soon after the carrier's Commanding Officer, Captain Frederick C. Sherman, left her.

May 23, 2019 · Seen from USS Lexington (CV-16) (80-G-236964). A Japanese bomb explodes close alongside USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in the opening phases of the action, 19 June 1944 (NH-74281). Heavy anti-aircraft fire from ships of TG 58.3 claims a Japanese plane (small splash in center) during the air attacks of 19 June 1944.

Jun 20, 2024 · USS Saratoga (CV-3) was commissioned on 16 November 1927 with Captain Harry E. Yarnell in command. The ship was originally to be built as a battle cruiser, but was later authorized to be completed as an aircraft carrier. Saratoga was the U.S. Navy’s first fast carrier. She sailed from Philadelphia, on 6 January 1928, on shakedown and on 11 January, Saratoga’s air officer, Marc A. Mitscher ...

Jun 25, 2024 · USS Lexington (CV-16) plane handlers rest on during a lull in flight deck action, 19 June 1944. Planes are Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters of VF-16 (80-G-236849). Planes are Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters of VF-16 (80-G-236849).

Jun 26, 2019 · Taken on the flight deck of the USS Lexington (CV-16), the TF 58 flagship (80-G-236841). 19 June, the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot” At 0100 on 19 June, a Japanese plane, probably from Guam, dropped float flares in the vicinity of the carriers of TG 58.1 (Clark), usually a harbinger of a night torpedo bomber attack.

Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3) were converted battlecruiser hulls and had served in the Pacific since being commissioned in 1927. Saratoga was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-6 in January 1942 and was out of action until June 1942, missing the Battle of Midway, although significant parts of her air group did participate as replacements ...

The Navy traces its ancestry to 13 October 1775, when an act of the Continental Congress authorized the first ship of a new navy for the United Colonies, as they were then known. The ships of the Continental Navy, and of the Navy later established under the federal Constitution, were not named in any strictly categorical manner. Ship names in the Continental Navy and the early federal Navy ...