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Named to commemorate the events of 19 April 1775: Minutemen fought a detachment of British troops at Lexington, Mass., opening the Revolutionary War with the "shot heard round the world." Three previous US warships had borne this name. Ordered in the spring of 1917 and laid down as a Lexington-class Battle Cruiser. Designated CC-1. Construction suspended on 8 February 1922. Conversion to an aircraft carrier authorized on 1 July 1922. Redesignated CV-2. Re-ordered as an aircraft carrier in the fall of 1922. Sponsored by Mrs. Theodore D. Robinson, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1924–1929).
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Ordered in the spring of 1917 and laid down as a Lexington-class Battle Cruiser. Designated CC-1.
Construction suspended on 8 February 1922.
Conversion to an aircraft carrier authorized on 1 July 1922. Redesignated CV-2.
Re-ordered as an aircraft carrier in the fall of 1922.
Sponsored by Mrs. Theodore D. Robinson, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1924–1929).