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NH 69053 USS LEXINGTON (CC-1, later CV-2)

USS LEXINGTON (CC-1, later CV-2)
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Title: USS LEXINGTON (CC-1, later CV-2)
Caption: Being launched, 3 October 1925. At the time she was the longest vessel in the world, the biggest ship ever constructed in this country and the fastest vessel afloat (destroyers excepted). She was launched at the Fore River Yards, Quincy, Massachusetts. Mrs. Theodore D. Robinson, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy was sponsor.
Description: Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.
Catalog #: NH 69053
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
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Original Date: Sat, Oct 03, 1925
After this Year: 1920
Before this Year: 1929
Original Medium: BW Photo
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