1700 Us Navy Aircraft Carrier Uss Lexington Cv-2 Review

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CV-2 was named to commemorate the events of 19 April 1775: Minutemen fought a detachment of British troops at Lexington, Mass., opening the Revolutionary State of war with the "shot heard round the world."

Three previous American warships had borne the name:

1. A Continenal Navy brigantine.
2. A sloop.
3. A side-bicycle gunboat.

"The First Blow for Liberty." Battle of Lexington. Re-create of print by Alexander Hay Ritchie after a drawing by Felix Octavius Carr Darley. Published in 1868. National Archives and Records Administration image 200(S)-JH-3.

Map NS020281a courtesy of the National Park Service.

NavSource
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Rear Admiral David West. Taylor, USN (left), Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and Rear Admiral John K. Robison, USN (right), Chief of the Bureau of Applied science, hold a model of the battle cruisers (CC-i class) and then nether construction, 8 March 1922. In the foreground is a model of an aircraft carrier design converted from the boxing cruiser hull. This photograph illustrates the genesis of the Lexington-grade aircraft carrier design. Standing in the groundwork are (from left to right): Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, USN, Principal of the Bureau of Aeronautics; Congressman Frederick C. Hicks, of New York; Congressman Clark Burdick, of Rhode Island; and Congressman Philip D. Swing, of California. Photographed at the Navy Department by Harris & Ewing.

Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.Southward. National Archives (# 80-CF-395b).

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Contract pattern for the Lexington and the Saratoga, 1922. The oval opening right aft is for twin torpedo tubes.

Line cartoon by A.D. Baker, 3. Drawing and text from U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman.

Robert Hurst
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Lexington on the building means at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, shortly before her launching, circa late September or early October 1925. Taken by a photographer from Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives (# 80-CF-21126-7).

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"ALL READY FOR A FEW AIRPLANES. The Navy's 2d huge shipping carrier, the Lexington , ready for launching at the Autumn River shipyards, Quincy, Mass., October three. The craft will behave 72 airplanes—when the Navy gets the planes. Mrs. Robinson, married woman of the Assistant Secretarial assistant of the Navy, volition act as sponsor of the Lexington ." The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September thirty, 1925.

Library of Congress, Chronicling America, via Michael Mohl
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Launching the future USS Lexington (CV-2) at Fore River Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass. Sabbatum, 3 October 1925.

National Athenaeum and Records Administration (NARA) photos.

NS0202ay: Catalog # 80-CF-21126-4.

NS0202aya: Catalog # 80-CF-21126-2.

NS0202ayb: Catalog # 80-CF-21126-3.

NS0202ayf: Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum photo.

NS0202ayc: Catalog # eighty-CF-21126-i.

NS0202ayd: Catalog # 80-CF-21126-6.

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via Chadd Smith
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Launching the future USS Lexington (CV-two).

Courtesy of Thomas Crane Public Library.

Via Bob Canchola, BT, USN (Ret.)
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"Launch Huge Aeroplane Carrier; Has Speed of 39 Miles an Hour"

"Capable of a speed of 33 knots, nigh 39 miles an hr, the new airplane carrier Lexington of the U.s.a. Navy, launched yesterday at Quincy, Mass., is, with her sister ship, the Saratoga, the fastest of all warships save destroyers."

"The Lexington , fourth ship in the U.s.a. Navy to conduct that name, was built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at the Fore River Plant. Originally designed as a battle cruiser, she was changed to an airplane carrier nether the Washington Conference agreements of 1922."

"The vessel is 888 feet long, almost as large as the Berengaria, has a capacity for lxx airplanes and carries viii 8-inch guns and 12 5-inch anti-aircraft rifles. Her 190,000 horsepower exceeds the combined rated powers of the six battleships, New Mexico, California, Tennessee, Maryland, Colorado and Westward Virginia. She is electrically driven."

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, Dominicus, October iv, 1925.

Jim McGovern
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Lexington (CV-2) fitting out at the Bethlehem Steel Visitor shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts.

Paul Rebold
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Lexington (CV-two) in the final states of fitting out, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in November 1927. (Merchant transport partially visible at right is the S.S. Westward Grama, which served every bit USS West Grama (ID # 3794) in 1919.)

U.Southward. Naval Historical Center Photograph (# NH 51323).

Michael Mohl
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"Huge $39,000,000 Ocean Fortress— Lexington , Greatest Ship of All Time, Ready to Ride Waves With Cargo of Airplanes"

John explains: "[S]can of a newspaper clipping and photo regarding the USS Lexington CV-2 [...] I received if from my grandmother when she passed away. It shows CAPT (Louis) Shane, who was in overall charge of the construction of the Lexington CV-2, next to CAPT Marshall, who would exist its first commander. Unfortunately the clipping does not say the proper name of the newspaper or have the appointment but given Commissioning was Dec fourteen, 1927, I presume it's between December 7 and 13, 1927. The entire article goes into how the Navy volition accept the send and information technology volition be deputed the adjacent Midweek. It's certainly from a local Boston or Quincy, MA newspaper because it speaks to the local residence of the surface area who have watched the ship abound over the years at the Quincy shipyard."

John Shane, corking grandson of CAPT Louis Shane
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"U.s.a.S. Lexington , Giant Navy Plane Carrier.
About to enter Dry out Dock, So. Boston, Jan. 10th, 1928"

A picture that Dave'southward male parent, Raymond Garner, purchased from an entrepreneurial photographer who was selling this photograph to young seamen as they reported for duty aboard the Lex on the date shown in the photo.

Considering of the odd size of the photo (24" X 7.5"), Dave had to scan ii images and put them together.

Dave notes three things that stand out in this photo to make it unique:

• The 1920s cars on the left
• The difference in the size of the Lex and the freighters on the right
• The shape of the bow due to these early "Plane Carriers" being constructed on cruiser hulls

Dave Garner
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"USS Lexington sails into Due south Boston drydock," [10] Jan 1928.

BPL accretion # 08_06_022441.

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, ©Leslie Jones Collection
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"Stern view of USS Lexington (CV-2) in Dry Dock 3 at the Due south Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, 10 January 1928. U.S. Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection (NPS Cat. No. 11787)."

Stephen P. Carlson,
Preservation Specialist,
Boston NHP,
Charlestown Navy Chiliad
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"USS Lexington (CV-ii) being settled in Dry Dock 3 at the South Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, x Jan 1928. U.Southward. Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Drove (NPS Cat. No. 11787)."

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"Bow view of USS Lexington (CV-2) in Dry Dock 3 at the Due south Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, 12 Jan 1928. Steam-powered Portal Crane fifty is at left. U.S. Navy photograph, Boston National Historical Park Collection (NPS Cat. No. 11787)."

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"View of port side of USS Lexington (CV-2) in Dry Dock 3 at the South Boston Annex, Boston Navy Grand, 12 January 1928. U.S. Navy photo, (Boston NY photograph # 10676), Boston National Historical Park Collection (NPS Cat. No. 11787)."

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USS Lexington (CV-2) in South Boston drydock, January 1928.

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, ©Leslie Jones Drove
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"USS Lexington in drydock," 18 January 1928.

BPL accretion # 08_06_022569.

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, ©Leslie Jones Collection
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"DC-552298-MISSING NAVY FLYER.-Commander T[heodore] G[ordon] Ellyson, executive officer of the plane carrier USS Lexington and the Navy'south senior flying officer, who took off with 2 companions from Hampton Roads, Va., Monday afternoon [27 Feb 1928] in an amphibian plane for Annapolis, Md., and has non been heard from since.-"

"Photo shows Commander T.Thou. Ellyson.-"

"Photo from Wide World Photos. Washington Bureau.-"

Tommy Trampp
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"CDR Theodore Gordon 'Spuds' Ellyson, the Executive Officeholder of the aircraft carrier Lexington and Senior Flying Officer, was killed on 27 February 1928, his 43rd birthday, in the crash of a Loening OL-7 aircraft in the lower Chesapeake Bay along with his crew while on a night flight from Norfolk, Virginia, to Annapolis, Maryland. His body washed ashore and was recovered in April 1928. He was buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery, in Annapolis."

Bill Gonyo
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USS Lexington (CV-2) in March 1928, during a nine-day scheduled visit to evangelize aircraft to NAS Pensacola, Florida. The transport anchored eight miles out in the Gulf of Mexico because she could not enter Pensacola Bay. Lexington delivered seven T3M-i bombers and 6 F6C-4 Curtiss Hawk fighters. At the time, she was the largest ship always to sail the Gulf of Mexico.

From the Academy of Westward Florida, I.D. - uwf_PF160_Item_043 (IID).

David Upton
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Location and date unknown, pre-war image (poor).

USN
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USS Lexington (CV-ii) in dry out dock at Hunters Point, California, plain early in her career (late 1920s). At the time, Hunters Point was owned by Bethlehem Shipbuilding. (Thanks to Darryl Baker, who identified the location of this photo.)

Courtesy of Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Courtesy of Daniel Hacker,
via Michael Mohl
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Passing through Culebra Cut, Panama Culvert, (appointment unknown but, equally deduced from the frontward stop of her flight deck, taken earlier her 1936 refit).

From the collection of Joseph P. English. Contributed past his son, George E. English.
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"The Lexington , 33,000-ton airplane-carrier of the U.S. Armada in the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal," 1920s–mid-1930s.

Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR (Ret.)
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"'A close clasp.' The statesSouth. Lexington . 33,000 ton aeroplane carrier, going through Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal."

Colour version of the photograph in a higher place.

Jim Ferguson.
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USS Lexington (CV-2) off Panama Metropolis, Panama, 25 March 1928, during her shakedown period.

Collection of Franklin Moran, 1967.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photo. (# NH 64500).

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NS020295: Battle Practice," circa 1928. Note VB-1B "Ruddy Ripper" F6C in the foreground, and a Lexington-course carrier steaming in the background.

NS020295a: Helm's inspection.

NS020295b: T4M torpedo-bomber, VT-1B squadron, launching from USS Lexington (CV-two), circa 1928–1930.

From the service photograph album of Lance'due south grandad, who served aboard Lexington until March 1931.

Lance Kreisman
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Curtiss F6C fighters (lower right) and Martin T3M torpedo planes on the carrier's flight deck, as she arrives off San Diego, California, on her maiden cruise, 4 Apr 1928. Note lowered elevator.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (# NH 51380).

NHC Anthology of ENS John Marcus Anderson

Ensign Anderson was on the first prowl that took Lexington through the Panama Canal. There are no dates on the photos.

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Twin eight"/55 gun mountain, No.iii.

Mary Anderson, granddaughter of ENS John Marcus Anderson
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Forrard eight"/55 gun mounts, island, and stack cake.

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USS Lexington (CV-2) in Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal.

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RADM Joseph G. Reeves and CAPT (later on RADM) Albert W. Marshall, first commanding officeholder of USS Lexington (CV-2).

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Vought UO-ane unarmed ascertainment seaplane, # A-6994.

Change of Control, 22 August 1928

Rear Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, Commander, Shipping Squadrons, Boxing Fleet, conducted a quarterly inspection of USS Lexington (CV-2) on Tuesday, 21 August 1928. The next twenty-four hours Captain Frank Berrien relieved the ship'due south skipper, the newly frocked Rear Admiral Albert W. Marshall, as Lexington 's commanding officer. These photos were taken on the 22nd of August (some of them may have been taken on the 21st).

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RADM Joseph Grand. Reeves inspecting crew of USS Lexington (CV-2).

Vincent Egidio,
son of Sisto Egidio, USS Lexington
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RADM Albert W. Marshall reading his orders.

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CAPT Frank D. Berrien reading his orders.

Vincent Egidio,
son of Sisto Egidio, USS Lexington
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Left to right: RADM Albert W. Marshall, outgoing commanding officer; CAPT Frank D. Berrien, incoming commanding officer; CDR Newton H. White, executive officer.

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RADM Albert W. Marshall, outgoing Commanding Officer, and CAPT Frank D. Berrien, incoming Commanding Officer of USS Lexington (CV-2).

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Left to right: CDR Newton H. White, Executive Officeholder, USS Lexington ; CDR Eugene E. Wilson, staff of Commander, Shipping Squadrons, Battle Fleet; RADM Joseph M. Reeves, Commander, Shipping Squadrons, Battle Fleet; RADM Albert Due west. Marshall, Commander, Aircraft Squadrons, Scouting Armada; and CAPT Frank D. Berrien, Commanding Officer, USS Lexington .

NS020367 100k USS Lexington (CV-2), left, and USS Saratoga (CV-3), right, moored at Puget Sound Navy G, Bremerton, Washington, 22 September 1928. Note Sara had a walkway on the face of her stack—i of the few distinguishing features betwixt these otherwise nearly identical twins. Robert M. Cieri
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USS Lexington (CV-two) early in her career (probably effectually 1928–29).

Robert M. Cieri
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USS Lexington (CV-two) in the Pedro Miguel locks, but n of Miraflores, Panama Canal, headed for the Pacific (probably around 1928–29).

Jim Sinnott, via Ballad Edgemon Hipperson, author of "Radioman: An Eyewitness Business relationship of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific."
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Launching Martin T4M-1 torpedo planes, circa 1929.

Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) photograph, # NH 82117 (Drove of LCDR Abraham DeSomer, donated by Myles DeSomer, 1975).

NHHC
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Perhaps during Fleet Problem Ix, off Panama, January 1929.

Edwin Kaukali
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An early photograph of USS Lexington (CV-two) at Panama, dated 22 February 1929, in full dress for George Washington's Birthday. Probably an official USN photo.

Submitted by
David Buell,
from the collection of his sister, Benetta
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USS Lexington (CV-2) steams through an aircraft-deployed smoke screen, 26 February 1929, soon later on that year's "Armada Problem" exercises.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral William Five. Pratt.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (# NH 75714).

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USS Lexington (CV-2), height; USS Saratoga (CV-three), with her distinctive funnel stripe; and USS Langley (CV-1), accross the pier from Saratoga. Bremerton, Washington, xi November 1929.

From the collection of Joseph P. English language. Contributed by his son, George E. English.
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As above, cropped.

Bob Canchola, BT, USN (Ret.)

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Robert Hurst.
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Front view of the isle of USS Lexington (CV-ii), 1929–1933.

From the collection of RADM Theodore R. Frederick.

Edwin Kaukali
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From 17 Dec 1929 to 16 January 1930 USS Lexington supplied electrical power to Tacoma, Washington, when this city suffered a power shortage. The electricity from the carrier totaled more than four.25 million kilowatt-hours.

Further reading at the Researcher @ Large website.

Tracy White
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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) flies over ships of the U.South. Fleet, circa 1930. Photographed from on board the airship, with two of her engine cars in the foreground. Ships beneath are USS Patoka (AO-9), closest to the camera, and the aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3).

Official U.S. Navy Photo, now in the collections of the National Athenaeum (# 80-G-462136).

Hampton Roads Naval Museum
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This is a 1930 photo of USS Lexington (CV-2), reportedly at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

From the LT Howard Havens Photo Collection, at present held by the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.

Darryl Baker
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USS Lexington (CV-ii) underway and launching aircraft, early-to-mid 1930s.

Photos by CWO4 Cecil Wood USMC, contributed by his son Donald Woods
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Ship'south crew and personnel of her aircraft squadrons posed on the flight deck, circa the 1930s. View looks frontwards from atop her smokestack.

U.Due south. Naval Historical Centre Photo. (# NH 51384).

NHC
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USS Lexington (CV-2) sailing past Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, circa early 1930s.

Robert Hurst
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"The aeroplane carrier Lexington leads the way. A view along the sweeping deck of the carrier, with a column of battleships following in her wake off Panama."

The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., Sunday, 29 March 1931.

Library of Congress, Chronicling America, via Michael Mohl
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Boeing F3B-1s of Bombing Squadron ii (VB-2B) in USS Lexington 'southward hangar, seen from a lift well; Vought O2U Corsair observation floatplanes of Observation Squadron three (VS-3B) are stowed aft. Photo taken quondam betwixt June 1931 and June 1933. US Navy photo.

Robert Hurst
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Ships of the United States Fleet pictured at anchor inside the breakwater at Colon, Canal Zone, 1933. Identifiable ships include the aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2), Langley (CV-1), and Saratoga (CV-three), as well as the battleships Texas (BB-35) and New York (BB-34). Omaha-course and Pensacola-form cruisers are also visible.

National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM) photo (# 1996.488.001.006).

NNAM
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Iv photos of USS Lexington (CV-2) taken before her 1935 refit at Puget Sound Navy M, as indicated by the absenteeism of the four sponsons (two forward, 2 aft) installed to augment her anti-shipping armament.

Photo NS020266 is an aerial view of the Puget Sound Navy Yard.

Robert M. Cieri

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David Buell
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USS Lexington (CV-two). Pre-war postcard.

Tommy Trampp
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USS Lexington (CV-2) at anchor, location and date unknown (prior to her 1936–37 refit, as shown past the shape of the forward part of the flight deck). Notation 1 of her fighters has but been launched.

Robert Hurst
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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) (center distance) moored to USS Patoka (AO-9) off Panama during Armada Trouble XII, circa Feb 1931. USS Lexington (CV-2), at right, and a battleship are also nowadays.

Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.

U.Due south. Naval Historical Eye Photograph (# NH 65300).

NHC
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Captain Ernest J. Male monarch, USN, presenting cigarette cases to race boat coiffure aboard USS Lexington (CV-2). King would later pb the U.Southward. Navy during WWII and become a v-star Armada Admiral. Photographed on 5 September 1931. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (NARA), # 80-G-699923.

NARA, via Michael Mohl
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"Bi-planes on deck of aircraft carrier USS Lexington , March 1932." Leslie Jones Photograph Collection, Boston Public Library.

Boston Public Library, via Michael Mohl
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USS Lexington (CV-2) at anchor at Lahaina Roads, Maui, Feb xvi, 1932.

Robert Hurst
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USS Lexington (CV-ii) underway, March fifteen, 1932. Note how closely the T4M torpedo-bombers and the smaller fighter and observation aircraft are packed together.

Robert Hurst
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Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. The aircraft carriers USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3) at the yard. Photo appears to be dated 8 June 1932, but Saratoga was in Dry Dock #2 on that date. Likewise present is USS Jason (AV-ii), an quondam collier converted into a seaplane tender, at left. The futurity USS Astoria (CA-34) is under construction in drydock, upper right. Photographed from a USAAC airplane.

(Thank you to David Stubblebine for providing additional information.)

Naval History & Heritage Control (NHHC) photo (# NH 93556).

NHHC, via Tom Bateman
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USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3) in front of Diamond Caput. Regardless of what is printed on the picture, it was taken on February ii, 1933 while both sis carriers were awaiting the official beginning of Fleet Trouble XIV (February 6.)

[On July 1, 1932 Sara was berthed at Pier 6, Bremerton, WA.]

Geoff Bong
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Aerial, starboard beam. Shipping on deck, Diamond Head in background. Dated ii February 1933.

National Athenaeum and Records Assistants (NARA) photograph, # eighty-K-416531.

NARA
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A Martin BM, of VT-1S, takes off over the stern of USS Lexington (CV-two), on 17 May 1934.

Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC) photograph, # NH 51366.

NHHC
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Port bow view of USS Lexington (CV-2) underway, 31 May 1934, during a Presidential Review by President Roosevelt off New York City.

Us Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photograph No. 1996.488.011.015.

Mike Light-green
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USS Lexington (CV-two), left, and USS Saratoga (CV-3) open to the public for viewing at New York Metropolis, June 1934.

Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely WO2, USN (Ret.) Submitted by his son-in-law, John Dupre'
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Another view, as above.

Gerd Matthes, Germany
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Iii photos of USS Lexington (CV-2)—and her sister USS Saratoga (CV-three)—in New York harbor in June 1934.

Eugene A. Brandner, AIA
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USS Lexington (CV-2) moored to Westward Fiftieth Street Dock, Hudson River, NY. A BM dive/torpedo bomber assigned to Torpedo Squadron I can exist seen parked aft on the flight deck, which suggests a rough time frame of 1932–36. Moreover, USS Saratoga (CV-three) can be seen across the pier. Both Sara and Lex visited New York and were moored to Pier 90 (West Fiftieth Street Dock), June 1-19, 1934, afterwards a Presidential Review. This photo was probably taken at that time.

Photo by Edwin Levick. Edwin Levick Collection, Mariner's Museum.

Jim Geldert
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Four photos of USS Lexington taken by Radioman 3C George W. Allen, circa 1935.

Top: VS-3B Squadron insignia (Indian head in circle) is conspicuously visible on the biplane.

RM3C George W. Allen, VS-3B, USS Lexington (CV-2), January. 1932-December. 1935.

Submitted by his son, Russell G. Allen

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Puget Sound Navy Thou, Bremerton, Washington. Aerial photograph taken in the mid-1930s. Alongside the pier in centre are the aircraft tender (ex-collier) Jason (AV-2), laid upwards in 1932 and sold in 1936, and the crane send Kearsarge. Also present are the shipping carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3), the latter with her distinctive funnel stripe.

U.South. Naval Historical Centre Photograph (# NH 45236).

NHC
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USS Lexington underway circa 1936, showing her very wide funnel with its blackness acme border, under which the MG platform was situated. The 8in/55 twin mounts, and also the single 5in(127mm)/25s grouped in threes, are clearly visible.

National Athenaeum (NARA) photo (# 80-G-13048).

Robert Hurst

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Larger re-create submitted by Mike Dark-green, Robert One thousand. Cieri and Tommy Trampp
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"United statesS. Lexington —CV2, Booklet of General Plans," 26 March 1936. Updated in 1937 and on 7 May 1941.

Courtesy of the Celebrated Naval Ships Association
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Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Primary of the Bureau of Aeronautics, arrives aboard USS Lexington (CV-two) in his new Curtiss SOC-1 shipping, 2 June 1936. Note the plane's glossy blue flag color scheme.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, at present in the collections of the National Archives and Records Assistants (NARA), photo # 80-G-457421.

Courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
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USS Lexington (CV-two) off Long Beach, California, 17 September 1936, with crewmembers spelling out "NAVY" on her flying deck.

Courtesy of Commander Robert 50. Ghormley, Jr., 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Centre Photograph. (# NH 67420).

NHC
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USS Lexington (CV-2), viii October 1936, probably at the Coronado Roads, San Diego, California

Paul Rebold
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USS Lexington (CV-2) entering Puget Sound Navy Yard, date unknown—might have been taken in belatedly 1936, as the machine gun sponsons (fore and aft) and platform (around funnel) are already in place, only frontwards flying deck has not still been widened.

Robert M. Cieri
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USS Lexington (CV-2) at ballast, location unknown, after her 1936–37 refit, which widened her forward flight deck.

Robert M. Cieri
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Another photo of USS Lexington (CV-ii) at anchor in the late 1930s.

Photographed past Geo. Winstead.

Courtesy of Jim Kurrasch, Battleship Iowa, Pacific Battleship Center
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USS Lexington (CV-2) underway sometime in the late 1930s (1937?), location unknown. Notation the 0.v-in MG gallery below the funnel cap and the widened forward flight deck.

Robert Hurst

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Larger re-create submitted past Ed Zajkowski
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Puget Audio Navy Yard, 26 March 1937, USS Lexington (CV-ii) at the determination of a refit to widen her forward flight deck, equally seen in this photograph. Looking closely, it is possible to observe the lighter areas on the outside edges of the forward flying deck, where the additions to widen the deck were installed.

David Buell
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In July 1937 battleship USS Colorado (BB-45); aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-ii); seaplane tender USS Swan (AVP-7): destroyers USS Lamson (DD-367), USS Cushing (DD-376), and USS Drayton (DD-366); and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Itasca searched in vain to locate Amelia Earhart (photo) afterward her disappearance in the middle Pacific (an area the size of Texas) during her around-the world flight. There has been much speculation most her disappearance over these past decades with a long list of theories, never substantiated, recorded over time on exactly what happened to Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan.

Bill Gonyo
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USS Lexington (CV-2) underway with aircraft spotted on deck, circa 1938.

US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No. 1996.488.011.020.

Mike Green
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Aerial port bow view, with shipping on deck, off Honolulu, Th, during Fleet Problem XIX, 8 April 1938.

National Archives photograph (# fourscore-G-410059).

(Run across also photos NS020341 ff and NS020434 ff.)

National Athenaeum
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"(WX9)NORFOLK, VA., April 12[, 1939]—Aeroplane Carriers Concentrate at Hampton—With the morning time sun simply breaking over the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean four of the Navy'south behemothic airplane carriers steamed into Hampton Roads today to take part in the greatest fleet concentration here since 1907. The ships are, left to right: the The statesSouthward. Lexington , Yorktown, Enterprise and Ranger. (See wire story)(AP wirephoto)(wrw41713wjf)39"

Drove of Michael Strout,
via Jonathan Eno
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"(WX12)NORFOLK, VA., APRIL 20[, 1939]—A Deckload of War Birds—The aircraft carrier Lexington of U.South. Navy carried a full deck load of planes when it left Hampton Roads this morning with other ships of the Pacific Armada on the way back to West Declension. This airview shows the Lexington underway. (AP wirephoto)h51400the39 (see wire story)"

Photo submitted by Robert M. Cieri, text by Jonathan Eno
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USS Lexington (CV-two) in the Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal. There are monoplane TBD-1 Devastator torpedo-bombers parked aft on the flight deck; therefore, the photo was possibly taken in 1939, when Lexington was returning to the Pacific after Fleet Trouble XX.

Robert Chiliad. Cieri
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"'1066-39' P.S.Due north.Y. [November 6, 1939] UsaS. Lexington . Status of plastic A.F. near stern and in way of rudder. Docked, Nov. 1939 — 12 months out of dock."

Source: NARA San Francisco Mare Island Naval Shipyard Full general Correspondence Files 1941–46.

Tracy White, Researcher @ Large
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"Service Afloat," Navy recruiting affiche issued in Nov 1939. Information technology features photographs of USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Dunlap (DD-384), as well every bit a pilothouse scene on a battleship and views of sailors splicing a hawser, carrying a hammock and bounding main purse, profitable a transport's navigator and standing engine room throttle watch.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph (# NH 77210), courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

NHC
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USS Lexington (CV-ii), left distance, with part of the Pacific Fleet in 1940 at Lahaina, Maui.

It is possible that the battleship on the left is USS California (BB-44). The center battleship appears to exist a Nevada class, either USS Nevada (BB-36) or USS Oklahoma (BB-37). The rightmost battleship is believed to be a Pennsylvania class, USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) rather than USS Arizona (BB-39). (Run into NS014462u for details.)

Photograph courtesy of Floyd Proffitt via Brad Proffitt
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"LATEST OFFICIAL PICTURES OF OUR NAVY IN Activeness"

"America's First Line of Defense Equally Streamlined As It Is Alert"

"'5 for Victory' is an old blueprint for Navy flyers. This formation of a scouting squadron all based on airplane carrier Lexington when non aloft, seeking out forces of the enemy, America'south naval forcefulness is admittedly the best in the world, both in men and planes."

Detroit Sunday Times Pictorial Review, Sunday, ten Baronial 1941.

Library of Congress, Chronicling America, via Michael Mohl
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USS Lexington (CV-2) leaving San Diego, California, 14 October 1941. Planes parked on her flight deck include F2A-1 fighters (parked forward), SBD scout-bombers (amidships) and TBD-ane torpedo planes (aft). Note the fake bow wave (Measure 5 cover-up) painted on her hull, frontward, and badly chalked status of the hull's camouflage pigment (Measure out ane).

In this picture Lexington still retains her twin 8" mounts. Four 1.1" mounts have been installed, one on each quadrant, and a fifth mount between the bridge and the funnel. Atop each 8" mountain is a gun tub containing ii .l-cal mounts.

Official U.Southward. Navy Photo, now in the collections of the National Archives. (# 80-G-416362).

(Thank you to Robert Hurst, who provided additional information).

NHC

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Larger re-create submitted by Bob Canchola, BT, USN (Ret.)
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Vertical aerial photograph of Ford Island, taken 10 November 1941, with five battleships tied up along "Battleship Row" at the top of the image. USS Lexington (CV-2), a seaplane tender and a low-cal cruiser are moored on the island's other (northwestern) side. Approximately 21 PBY patrol planes are parked at the Naval Air Station's seaplane base, in the upper right. The bright diagonal line, at the lower left finish of Ford Island, points to the north.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph (NHC # eighty-G-279385), at present in the collections of the National Archives.

Michael Mohl
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USS Lexington (CV-2), flagship of Task Force 12, underway in December 1941. Task Strength 12 was sent to reinforce Midway on 5 December 1941 and after the set on on Pearl Harbor looked for the Japanese armada until xiii December 1941.

LIFE magazine, Bob Landry lensman, shared by Peter DeForest.

Mike Dark-green Models & Memorabilia

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Model of USS Lexington (CV-2).

Courtesy of Joel Rosen, Motion Models
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Model on brandish at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida. Photos taken on 13 June 2008.

Photos by Judson Phillips
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"Shipping Carrier Lexington "

"Navy Twenty-four hour period — Washington Navy G — Oct. 27, 1936"

Tommy Trampp
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"U.South. plane carrier Lexington at ballast off Long Beach, Calif."

Arnold Putnam
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Survivor of USS Lexington Document for Robert James Allen.

Eric Allen, for his begetter Robert James Allen

For more than data about this ship, meet:

• Lexington (CC-1) — Nether structure as a Boxing Cruiser
• USS Lexington (CV-2) — World War Ii
• USS Lexington (CV-two) — Commanding Officers
• Postal Covers related to the send

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Source: https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/02.htm

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