Uss lexington

The fifth ship to be named after the Battle of Lexington.

The USS Saratoga Notice there are no angled flight decks. They drove them straight off of the deck.

USS LEXINGTON (CV-16) Deployments & History

Rare color picture of the USS Lexington (CV-2) underway in 1929.

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American aircraft carriers at their peak are the queens of the high seas, outclassing even America’s nearest peer competitors. They’re the anchors of U.S. seapower, and have a commensurate price tag, costing billions of dollars to build and thousands of sailors to man. But even the proudest ships outlive their military usefulness — and sometimes they’re barely worth the trouble to tear them down. USS Constellation (CV-64) will be the latest carrier to meet the scrappers. The Navy announced…

In Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, with 34 planes on her flight deck, May 1928. Note booms rigged out from her sides. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Figure 1: USS Valley Forge (CV-45) photographed circa 1947-49. Official US Navy Photograph. Click on photograph for larger image. Figure ...