Lexington USS

The ship was laid down as Cabot on 15 July 1941 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts. In May 1942, USS Lexington (CV-2), which had been built in the same shipyard two decades earlier, was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea. In June, workers at the shipyard submitted a request to Navy Secretary Frank Knox to change the name of a carrier currently under construction there to Lexington.[5] Knox agreed to the proposal and Cabot was renamed as the fifth USS Lexington on 16 June 1942.[6] She was launched on 23 September 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson. Lexington was commissioned on 17 February 1943, with Captain Felix Stump USN in command.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_%28CV-16%29 (accessed on 21/3/2018);