Lexington Class Aircraft Carriers Class Overview


Name
Builder
Fate
Notes
Lexington CV-2
Fore River Shipbuilding
Sunk May 8, 1942
Damaged by Japanese
aircraft and scuttled by
USS Phelps DD-360
Saratoga CV-3
New York Shipbuilding
Sunk as target July 25, 1946
Operation Crossroads


Both ships laid down as Battle Cruisers under the same names but, construction suspended Feb. 8, 1922 due
to limitations of the Washington Treaty. Reordered as aircraft carriers on July 1, 1922 and construction was
resumed.