Too many Lexingtons

[Iceyl86]

I was just curious when the Concordia class Lexington was launched, and when the Lexington Class Heavy carrier was started, because the two classes look like they are from the same age, and Since I doubt there were two ships w/ the same name out there, could someone explain either Lexington's History?

 

[ChrisReid]

The Concordia Class Lexington was gutted by internal exposions after the Battle of Earth and was considered a loss. So it was off the books by 2669 when they then commissioned the Lexington type Heavy Carrier TCS Lexington, and it was actually lost in Kilrathi space shortly thereafter. And finally they refit and recommissioned the original Lexington, and it sees action during the Border Worlds Affair.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

The Concordia-class TCS Lexington (CV-44) which appeared in Wing Commander IV is the same ship which is referenced in the novel Fleet Action. She was savaged during the Battle of Terra, crippled by internal explosions and subsequently stricken from the list. Shortly after the battle the unknown-class Heavy Carrier TCS Lexington (Armada) entered service for the special mission detailed in Wing Commander Armada's Voices of War manual. Her ultimate fate is actually unknown -- we simply know that as of 2669.098 that her status was unknown. She may have been destroyed, she may have returned home and been decomissioned after this date... all we do know is that before the end of the war the TCS Lexington (CV-44) which appeared in Wing Commander IV was rebuilt from the wreckage and recomissioned. We know that she saw action at the end of the war: the novelization claims her fighter wing was in bad shape and replaced with factory fresh spacecraft after the surrender. Captain Eisen took command when the war ended, oversaw a partial refit and then three years of patrols in and around what is now the Union of Border Worlds before the events of Wing Commander IV. Lexington's current fate is unknown (in the novel she survived Wing Commander IV, Blair having disabled her in the historical path), although there is a reference to a TCS Lexington memorial among the 'flavor text' announcements at the original wingcommanderprophecy.com website.

* - Not actually the second. The Wing Commander IV novel claims that the ship in Wing Commander IV is the eleventh ship to bear the name. The novel also notes that this tradition goes all the way back to seagoing vessels, so these eleven presumably include the five historic American warships already named Lexington (the Rec Room set in Wing Commander IV includes a framed photograph of the fifth of these ships, the World War II vintage CV-16 USS Lexington).

 

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The Wing Commander IV novel claims that the ship in Wing Commander IV is the eleventh ship to bear the name. The novel also notes that this tradition goes all the way back to seagoing vessels, so these eleven presumably include the five historic American warships already named Lexington (the Rec Room set in Wing Commander IV includes a framed photograph of the fifth of these ships, the World War II vintage CV-16 USS Lexington).

This one:

 

[Dundradal]

That ship appears to be CVN-65 USS Enterprise. The blockish island is a good indicator as the Nimitz class do not have the same island design.

 

[powell99]

It's the Enterprise.

The USS Lexington is an Essex Class Carrier. Even after her refits she has several characteristics that show she is not the pictured carrier. The First being that the Carrier in the Picture lacks a smokestack or whatever you want to call it. The second feature that the Essex Class Carrier have, is that the Island (Like all carriers before the Enterprise) is located amidships. The Island is also not the right shape. Neither is the flighdeck.

The USS Enterprise, fits all of these to a T. The Island is perfect, the Flightdeck is perfect. Everying says that that carrier is the Enterprise.