OMG that landing deck is small!!!
Was it really “lost”? I think we all knew about where it sank.
A trickier find would be Hornet CV-8 that was sunk by Japanese destroyers when it was abandoned after Santa Cruz.
American destroyers tried with 9 torpedoes to sink her but they didn’t explode and 400 5” shells. They had to flee the area when the Japanese showed up and finished the job.
At 866' by 105', the Lexington class carriers had the largest flight deck of any American carrier until the Midway class were commissioned after the war.
Bigger than the Yorktown and even bigger than the Essex's.