If that is the Lexington, what is sitting in Corpus Christi with the name USS Lexington on it? It is CV16.
CV 16 was built during WW-II and was supposed to be named Cabot. If IIRC the shipyard gang asked for it to be named Lexington in honor of the Ship lost at Coral Sea.
Its a neat tour if you have not done it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_(CV-16)
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CV-1 Langley Langley (lead ship) 20 March 1922 27 February 1942 19 years, 11 months and 7 days Scuttled and Sunk 65 nm south of Cilacap, Java [15][16][17] CV-2 Lexington Lexington (lead ship) 14 December 1927 8 May 1942 14 years, 4 months and 24 days Sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea [17][18] CV-3 Saratoga Lexington class 16 November 1927 26 July 1946 18 years, 8 months and 12 days Sunk in Operation Crossroads as a nuclear test target near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean [17][19] CV-4 Ranger Ranger (lead ship) 4 June 1934 18 October 1946 12 years, 4 months and 14 days Scrapped in 1947 in Chester, Pennsylvania [20] CV-5 Yorktown Yorktown (lead ship) 30 September 1937 7 June 1942 4 years, 8 months and 8 days Sunk in the Battle of Midway [21] CV-6 Enterprise Yorktown class 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 8 years, 9 months and 5 days Scrapped in 1960 [22] CV-7 Wasp Wasp (lead ship) 25 April 1940 15 September 1942 2 years, 4 months and 21 days Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign [23] CV-8 Hornet Yorktown class 20 October 1941 26 October 1942 1 year and 6 days Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands [24][25] CV-9 Essex Essex (lead ship) 31 December 1942 20 June 1969 26 years, 5 months and 20 days Scrapped in 1975 [26] CV-10 Yorktown Essex class 15 April 1943 27 June 1970 27 years, 2 months and 12 days Preserved at the Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum—Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA [27] CV-11 Intrepid Essex class 16 August 1943 15 March 1974 30 years, 6 months and 27 days Preserved at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum—New York, New York, USA [28] CV-12 Hornet Essex class 20 November 1943 26 May 1970 26 years, 6 months and 6 days Preserved at USS Hornet Museum—Alameda, California, USA [29] CV-13& Franklin Essex class 31 January 1944 17 February 1947 2 years, 11 months and 17 days Scrapped in 1966 [30] CV-14 Ticonderoga Essex (extended bow) 8 May 1944 1 September 1973 29 years, 3 months and 24 days Scrapped in 1975 [31] CV-15 Randolph Essex (extended bow) 9 October 1944 13 February 1969 24 years, 4 months and 4 days Scrapped in 1975 [32] CV-16 Lexington Essex 17 February 1943 8 November 1991 48 years, 8 months and 22 days Preserved at USS Lexington Museum On the Bay— Corpus Christi, Texas, USA [33][34]
The previous LEXINGTON, CV-2.
We recycle names.
We have had three Bonhomme Richard, four Yorktowns, and working on our sixth Enterprise.
The Navy reused names to confuse the Japs.