The new carrier’s name was changed to LEXINGTON.Īfter training maneuvers and a shakedown cruise, LEXINGTON joined the Fifth Fleet at Pearl Harbor. During World War II, final construction was being completed at Massachusetts’ Fore River Shipyard when word was received that the original carrier named USS LEXINGTON, CV-2, had been sunk in the Coral Sea. An Essex-class carrier, LEXINGTON was originally named the USS CABOT. Commissioned in 1943, she set more records than any other Essex Class carrier in the history of naval aviation.The ship was the oldest working carrier in the United States Navy when decommissioned in 1991.
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