The USS Lexington, originally built as a battlecruiser and later converted into a fleet carrier, became a pivotal asset for the US Navy during World War II and earned the nickname “Lady Lex.” ...

The USS Lexington, a trailblazer in U.S. naval aviation, was discovered in 2018, lying two miles beneath the Coral Sea, where it sank during World War II. Originally designed as a battlecruiser ...

The names of these ships might have been USS Lexington and USS Saratoga. The United States Navy began to think about battlecruiser construction even before HMS Dreadnought and HMS Invincible ...

Summary: The USS Lexington (CV-16), an Essex-class ... The USN finally began construction of the Lexington battlecruisers in the early 1920s. But by that time the strategic landscape had changed ...

the Lexington was originally commissioned as a battlecruiser but was launched as an aircraft carrier in 1925. The giant ship took part in the Coral Sea conflict along with the USS Yorktown ...

USS Lexington detonates under a fuel explosion ... She had initially been intended to be built as an enormous, fast, battlecruiser. But treaties put paid to that idea part way through her ...

SEATTLE, March 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Wreckage from the USS Lexington was discovered on March 4, 2018, by the expedition crew of Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, which is owned by Microsoft co ...

the USS Lexington was discovered off the coast of Australia by an expedition team led by Microsoft co- founder Paul Allen. Originally designed as a battle cruiser, the “Lady Lex” was converted ...

USS Lexington, nicknamed "Lady Lex", was originally designed as a battlecruiser but was converted into an early aircraft carrier for the US Navy. Lady Lex took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea ...

the Lexington was originally commissioned as a battlecruiser but was launched as an aircraft carrier in 1925. The giant ship took part in the Coral Sea conflict along with the USS Yorktown ...

The USS Lexington Museum honors Women Veterans Day with an exhibit celebrating women's naval service, highlighting the ship's ...

This image shows what the battle cruiser USS Fort Worth would have looked like ... to be named for the first vessel of that class, the Lexington. They were to be longer and less heavily armed ...