DID YOU KNOW:
- You could park more than 1,000 automobiles on the USS LEXINGTON's flight deck?
- The flight deck is equal to more than two acres of land on which you could grow a crop of 100 bushels of corn?
- You could play three football games or 14 basketball games at the same time on USS LEXINGTON's flight deck?
DID YOU KNOW USS LEXINGTON:
- Steamed more miles and served longer than any other carrier in the world (1943-1947, 1955-1991) 40 years?
- Is as tall as a 19 story building; as long as three New York City blocks?
- Carries enough gasoline to drive your car around the world 132 times?
- Carries enough fuel to sail nonstop a distance of 30,000 miles?
- Has sailed a total of 209,000 miles; equivalent to 8 times around the world?
- Has crossed the equator 13 times and the International Date Line 6 times?
- Has more sleeping space than the largest hotel in the world?
- Has more telephones than a city of 5,000?
- Can produce enough electric power to supply a city of 150,000?
DID YOU KNOW USS LEXINGTON WAS THE FIRST:
- Ship in US Naval history to have women stationed aboard as crew members? (18 Aug. 1980)
- Carrier to conduct flight operations in the area of Cape Horn?
- Carrier to establish a seagoing High School (21 Sept. 1967)?
- Foreign carrier to enter Tokyo Bay?
- Carrier to deploy air-to-surface missiles aboard a carrier?
- Carrier to hold the CVT (Navy Training Carrier) and the AVT-Auxiliary training carrier designations?
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