NAME SAKE: The Battle of Lexington
BUILDER: Fore River Shipping, Quincy MA
LAID DOWN: 15 July 1941
LAUNCHED: 13 September 1942
SPONSORED BY: Mrs. Theodore Douglass Robinson
COMMISSIONED: 17 February 1943
DECOMMISSIONED: 23 April 1947
RECLASSIFIED CV 16 to CVA 16: 16 October 1952
RECOMMISSIONED: 15 August 1955
RECLASSIFIED:
CVA 16 to CVS 16: 16 October 1962
CVS 16 to CVT 16: 1 January 1969
CVT 16 to AVT 16: 1 July 1978
STRUCK: 8 November 1991
NICKNAME: The Blue Ghost
Last Essex Class carrier in commission and last on the Naval Vessel Register
CURRENTLY: Museum on the Bay, Corpus Christi TX
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