Visited the USS Lexington yesterday (Aug 4, 2024). I have visited the ship countless times since the early 90s, and it never fails to impress. It is always a humbling experience. So many great men and women served on this ship, and it is incredible to be able to walk the ship and imagine yourself being there during the many battles the ship was involved in. So incredibly humbling.
My son and I visited USS Midway And The USS Iowa this year. We're heading to Texas next year in the hopes of getting to see this ship in person. Great Video!
USS Texas won't be ready until late 2025 or early 2026. Corpus Christi is pretty far from Galveston so it would probably be hard to fit both ships in one week or one weekend. I hope you can visit both Lexington and Texas eventually!
Thank you for this. I am currently listening to “The Quiet Warrior” a biography of Admiral Spruance, and have listened to Nimitz’s biography and “The Admirals”, so it is awesome to see a tour of Lady Lex.
Nostalgia from my childhood. I stayed a few nights in 2009 or 2010 with my dad in the barracks for cubscouts (or was it weeblos)? They told ghost stories to us and we believed them so when we slept at night after hearing stories in the boiler room we always fell asleep a bit unnerved lol
i was a boy scout and got to stay over night in the usually off limits officer bunks and they had a lounge and game room and we got a free tour of the brig and some other off limits places some of which you can pay to see
was there working air conditioning at the time? i went this past summer and i’ve genuinely never been so hot and sweaty in my life. the little map they give when u first come in completely dissolved in my hand by the time i was done, i can’t imagine staying overnight. there were pockets of the ship with limited ac and airflow but i would assume the bunks would be ventilated better?
@@anissastoke oh so sorry to hear that you had that experience the air conditioning was completely functional and when we slept I was freezing cold on those bottom decks and it was an amazing experience but there were so many cockroaches
@@Adv3nturous2 Ewwwww! I now will never spend the night in a museum ship knowing that there are cockroaches everywhere. I am sure there were cockroaches and other bad pests everywhere when these ships were on active duty too.
5:05 - They have an error on the model of the carrier group. They show CVL-25 with a label of "USS-Princeton". CVL-23 was in fact the Princeton and CVL-25 was the USS-Cowpens.
Not to sound morbid, but as i watch this video, can you imagine all this is sitting on the bottom? I toured The York Town in S.C. past by the maintenance shop. seen the table grinder! Then watched the video of the sunken York. There was the table and grinder i walked past! Now add the Souls that were lost there! God Forbid we ever forget!
@@panzerdeal8727 Then in 1943-45 the fatalities numbers got far worse as the "smaller" carriers were sunk (Liscome Bay - 702 KIA and Bismarck Sea - 318 KIA) or so heavily damaged that they were forcibly retired early (Franklin - 807 KIA and Bunker Hill - 396 KIA). Lexington lost 216 KIA and Wasp lost 193 KIA during the battles in which they were sunk and the other sunken fleet carriers suffered less deaths than Wasp's numbers.
@@nogoodnameleft Kind of to be expected with the numbers built. CVE's outnumbered cv's by some 2:1 and CVL's by like 4:1. [some 27 CV's, 9 cvl's and 50+ cve.] Probability law plays no favorites. Good point tho.
@@panzerdeal8727 I think it is more like the kamikazes were actually a hugely successful weapon and were the first successful guided missile (yes...human-guided but they were still pretty much like how a big ocean war would have looked like during the Cold War [if no nukes were used] with guided missiles). If Japan hadn't done the kamikazes and continued their actual suicidal methods like at Philippine Sea and Formosa then the war against Japan would have been finished so quickly and with very few casualties. If the kamikazes successfully hit their targets (and many of them were successful) then that isn't really suicidal, which involves only the pilot getting killed, like their completely failed attempts to do aerial battles in 1944 prior to October 1944 at Leyte Gulf, which were suicidal methods of aerial warfare as seen in the turkey shoots at Philippine Sea and Formosa. Admiral Spruance later wrote that kamikazes were very effective weapons of war and that they were even better methods of fighting than Army B-17s/B-24s/B-29s that bomb from high altitudes and are a huge waste of bombs and exposing crewmen to getting killed in suicidal bombing campaigns.
@@nogoodnameleft Catch: Kamikazies are useless without a target. With more Cv's in closer to Japan, the better their hit probibilities get. As for Bomber campaigns over Japan, fun fact that kinda knocks Spruances statement: More Japanese were actually killed in conventional raids than the Atom bombings. The Firebombings in Japan were even more effective in causing casualties than the Dresden raids. th-cam.com/video/g93A11ofTE8/w-d-xo.html
THIS!!!! Why do almost every TH-cam video of all of the carrier museum ships never show the most important part (well second most after the engines)...the FLIGHT DECK???
Do Hard Hat Tours allow videos though? I never see any Hard Hat Tours of any museum ships. If they are not allowing videos then why are you whining because you are too cheap to pay the extra $10 for yourself to go on the illegal-to-videotape Hard Hat Tours?
so sorry help me out here iam from ireland ... but i thought that the uss lexington was sunk in battle so is this the second ship was there a third lexington ... did i read somewhere that the american navy where builting a new carrier and to keep the uss lexington name alive she be named that ....or is that totally wrong..
Essex class carrier Lexington [II] was renamed during construction to carry on the Lexington [I] name and battle honors. This was also done with The Hornet II, Yorktown II , Wasp II, and Langley II, during the war. th-cam.com/video/Tz1G-BbNiVI/w-d-xo.html @@eamonnquigley2125
After retiring the Lady Lex in 91, they probably passed the name on to a new ship to carry on the traditions. during wartime that's markeed with a Roman numeralafter the name [Second Edition label.] Peacetime it's just a name change. @@eamonnquigley2125
Our lost carriers got replacements during ww 2 out of new construction, eitheer Essex class Fleet Carriers or Independance class Light Carriers. Offically , they were annotated by Roman numeral II in the name, but sloppy historians from about 1981 on stopped using the offical names and began just dropping the numbers. Hornet, Yorktown Lexington,Wasp, all were replaced. During wartime the number designation is used to keep offical records straight.@@eamonnquigley2125
My squadron that I was in are plank owners of this ship, 1 of our jets fell threw the flightdeck when it was wooden. VA-128 GOLDEN INTRUDERS A6-E TRAM.
Great video, enjoyed it. But that is by far the worst model of the USS South Dakota I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t even come close. Why would the museum choose to display that?
@@vipertt100 It's because carrier museums aren't run by actual museum ship aficionados but by corporate sponsors. They don't care about the actual Navy or carriers themselves because they care more about the private events that they can hold onboard like anime conventions/festivals and installing a Space Shuttle on their flight decks.
Wow! That South Dakota model is horrible! So out of scale and very inaccurate. The diorama of 1/700 scale ship also shows the Wasp, CV-7, as the Enterprise CV-6. Who runs this place?
Goes to show that carrier museums aren't run by actual museum ship fans but by corporate business sponsors considering they turn them into Disneyland like Lexington's IMAX theater in one one of her elevator shafts. The USS Cabot was about to become a museum ship in Louisiana but their idiotic would-be caretakers decided to turn her into a casino/hotel and that completely killed any chance to save her due to extreme anger and backlash to that last-second decision.
Visited the USS Lexington yesterday (Aug 4, 2024). I have visited the ship countless times since the early 90s, and it never fails to impress. It is always a humbling experience. So many great men and women served on this ship, and it is incredible to be able to walk the ship and imagine yourself being there during the many battles the ship was involved in. So incredibly humbling.
My love 💙 takes me there annually.
My son and I visited USS Midway And The USS Iowa this year. We're heading to Texas next year in the hopes of getting to see this ship in person. Great Video!
USS Texas won't be ready until late 2025 or early 2026. Corpus Christi is pretty far from Galveston so it would probably be hard to fit both ships in one week or one weekend. I hope you can visit both Lexington and Texas eventually!
While you're in Galveston make sure to fit in a stop at the USS Cavalla and USS Stewart
Thank you for this. I am currently listening to “The Quiet Warrior” a biography of Admiral Spruance, and have listened to Nimitz’s biography and “The Admirals”, so it is awesome to see a tour of Lady Lex.
Nostalgia from my childhood. I stayed a few nights in 2009 or 2010 with my dad in the barracks for cubscouts (or was it weeblos)? They told ghost stories to us and we believed them so when we slept at night after hearing stories in the boiler room we always fell asleep a bit unnerved lol
i was a boy scout and got to stay over night in the usually off limits officer bunks and they had a lounge and game room and we got a free tour of the brig and some other off limits places some of which you can pay to see
was there working air conditioning at the time? i went this past summer and i’ve genuinely never been so hot and sweaty in my life. the little map they give when u first come in completely dissolved in my hand by the time i was done, i can’t imagine staying overnight. there were pockets of the ship with limited ac and airflow but i would assume the bunks would be ventilated better?
@@anissastoke oh so sorry to hear that you had that experience the air conditioning was completely functional and when we slept I was freezing cold on those bottom decks and it was an amazing experience but there were so many cockroaches
@@Adv3nturous2 Ewwwww! I now will never spend the night in a museum ship knowing that there are cockroaches everywhere. I am sure there were cockroaches and other bad pests everywhere when these ships were on active duty too.
@@nogoodnameleft as a matter of fact there was a whole exhibit showing how rats would climb the docking ropes to get into the boat
Me too
Spent a whole lot of time in the Radio Shack as a Radioman! Didn't see it here though.
My dad was on there in the early 60s
5:05 - They have an error on the model of the carrier group. They show CVL-25 with a label of "USS-Princeton". CVL-23 was in fact the Princeton and CVL-25 was the USS-Cowpens.
you can hear that ABT humming at about the 18:00 mark
The engineering needed boggled my mind.
Not to sound morbid, but as i watch this video, can you imagine all this is sitting on the bottom? I toured The York Town in S.C. past by the maintenance shop. seen the table grinder! Then watched the video of the sunken York. There was the table and grinder i walked past! Now add the Souls that were lost there! God Forbid we ever forget!
Lexington . Hornet, Yorktown, Wasp, Langley...'42 was a rough year.
@@panzerdeal8727 Then in 1943-45 the fatalities numbers got far worse as the "smaller" carriers were sunk (Liscome Bay - 702 KIA and Bismarck Sea - 318 KIA) or so heavily damaged that they were forcibly retired early (Franklin - 807 KIA and Bunker Hill - 396 KIA). Lexington lost 216 KIA and Wasp lost 193 KIA during the battles in which they were sunk and the other sunken fleet carriers suffered less deaths than Wasp's numbers.
@@nogoodnameleft Kind of to be expected with the numbers built. CVE's outnumbered cv's by some 2:1 and CVL's by like 4:1. [some 27 CV's, 9 cvl's and 50+ cve.] Probability law plays no favorites. Good point tho.
@@panzerdeal8727 I think it is more like the kamikazes were actually a hugely successful weapon and were the first successful guided missile (yes...human-guided but they were still pretty much like how a big ocean war would have looked like during the Cold War [if no nukes were used] with guided missiles). If Japan hadn't done the kamikazes and continued their actual suicidal methods like at Philippine Sea and Formosa then the war against Japan would have been finished so quickly and with very few casualties. If the kamikazes successfully hit their targets (and many of them were successful) then that isn't really suicidal, which involves only the pilot getting killed, like their completely failed attempts to do aerial battles in 1944 prior to October 1944 at Leyte Gulf, which were suicidal methods of aerial warfare as seen in the turkey shoots at Philippine Sea and Formosa. Admiral Spruance later wrote that kamikazes were very effective weapons of war and that they were even better methods of fighting than Army B-17s/B-24s/B-29s that bomb from high altitudes and are a huge waste of bombs and exposing crewmen to getting killed in suicidal bombing campaigns.
@@nogoodnameleft Catch: Kamikazies are useless without a target. With more Cv's in closer to Japan, the better their hit probibilities get. As for Bomber campaigns over Japan, fun fact that kinda knocks Spruances statement: More Japanese were actually killed in conventional raids than the Atom bombings. The Firebombings in Japan were even more effective in causing casualties than the Dresden raids. th-cam.com/video/g93A11ofTE8/w-d-xo.html
Unfortunately NOT seeing every part of the ship... the entire flight dect and its aircraft are omitted.
THIS!!!! Why do almost every TH-cam video of all of the carrier museum ships never show the most important part (well second most after the engines)...the FLIGHT DECK???
Fun facts for us that love GTA V they use this ship as a mission that's how I ended up finding it Easter egg if you will
Good video but to say "See Every Part of the Ship" it should include the "Hard Hat Tour"
Do Hard Hat Tours allow videos though? I never see any Hard Hat Tours of any museum ships. If they are not allowing videos then why are you whining because you are too cheap to pay the extra $10 for yourself to go on the illegal-to-videotape Hard Hat Tours?
Cv-16. USS Lexington II.
so sorry help me out here iam from ireland ... but i thought that the uss lexington was sunk in battle so is this the second ship was there a third lexington ... did i read somewhere that the american navy where builting a new carrier and to keep the uss lexington name alive she be named that ....or is that totally wrong..
Essex class carrier Lexington [II] was renamed during construction to carry on the Lexington [I] name and battle honors. This was also done with The Hornet II, Yorktown II , Wasp II, and Langley II, during the war. th-cam.com/video/Tz1G-BbNiVI/w-d-xo.html @@eamonnquigley2125
After retiring the Lady Lex in 91, they probably passed the name on to a new ship to carry on the traditions. during wartime that's markeed with a Roman numeralafter the name [Second Edition label.] Peacetime it's just a name change. @@eamonnquigley2125
And then there's The Langley, and the Langley II th-cam.com/users/shortsc2ariO78Vlo?feature=share @@eamonnquigley2125
Our lost carriers got replacements during ww 2 out of new construction, eitheer Essex class Fleet Carriers or Independance class Light Carriers. Offically , they were annotated by Roman numeral II in the name, but sloppy historians from about 1981 on stopped using the offical names and began just dropping the numbers. Hornet, Yorktown Lexington,Wasp, all were replaced. During wartime the number designation is used to keep offical records straight.@@eamonnquigley2125
.Amazing Boat Stories Channel Movie in Year Tuesday September 17,2024.😐.
My squadron that I was in are plank owners of this ship, 1 of our jets fell threw the flightdeck when it was wooden. VA-128 GOLDEN INTRUDERS A6-E TRAM.
Great video, enjoyed it. But that is by far the worst model of the USS South Dakota I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t even come close. Why would the museum choose to display that?
Not to mention it is not accurate at all.
If yall can make a better one then go for it
@@vipertt100 It's because carrier museums aren't run by actual museum ship aficionados but by corporate sponsors. They don't care about the actual Navy or carriers themselves because they care more about the private events that they can hold onboard like anime conventions/festivals and installing a Space Shuttle on their flight decks.
Wow! That South Dakota model is horrible! So out of scale and very inaccurate. The diorama of 1/700 scale ship also shows the Wasp, CV-7, as the Enterprise CV-6. Who runs this place?
Goes to show that carrier museums aren't run by actual museum ship fans but by corporate business sponsors considering they turn them into Disneyland like Lexington's IMAX theater in one one of her elevator shafts. The USS Cabot was about to become a museum ship in Louisiana but their idiotic would-be caretakers decided to turn her into a casino/hotel and that completely killed any chance to save her due to extreme anger and backlash to that last-second decision.