Fleet Aircraft Carrier
Lexington-class
2
Ships Built
1927
Commissioned
43,000 t
Displacement
888 ft
Length
~2,900
Crew
Born from the Washington Naval Treaty's limits on battlecruiser construction, Lexington and Saratoga were converted on the slipways into the two largest carriers of their era. Their massive 33-knot hulls and deck-load strikes defined American carrier doctrine through the opening of World War II.
