Friday, February 10, 2012

USS Lexington

We finally got to Corpus Christi to see the USS Lexington.  After circling the area several times (a lot of ‘one way’ streets) we found the parking lot. There is street parking but they all had parking meters and we knew we were going to be there a while.


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We started the self-guided tour at a leisurely pace.  The flight deck was one of our favorite stations.
 
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The tour is divided into 5 sections. we read more info in some areas than others. We spent a lot of time in the area set aside to remember Pearl Harbor.  It was one of the best displays we had ever seen.   They even had a huge model of the area, showing where each ship was prior to the attack.  

The ship is named in honor of the Revolutionary War Battle of Lexington. It was originally to have been named Cabot, but she was renamed while under construction to commemorate USS Lexington (CV-2), lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. Tokyo Rose gave the ship the nickname “The Blue Ghost” because it was painted a dark blue. The “ghost” portion of the nickname came from the fact that they thought they had sunk the Lexington four times during the course of the war.
“She sinks beneath the deep blue seas each evening, all hands aboard, only to re-appear each morning on the horizon.”


We leave the Rockport area tomorrow and are heading up to Medina Lake.  Hopefully our internet and phone signal will be a lot better than it is here.

4 comments:

  1. We loved the ship and sub. Safe travels to Median Lake.

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  2. Another sight we have yet to see. Thanks for sharing your bit of it.

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  3. My list of must sees keeps growing. Thanks for the tour.

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