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 | | A few years later, during the American Civil War, an armed Federal side-wheeler named Lexington, was launched and served only a short while before being sunk during the siege of Vicksburg in 1863. Another version of her fate is she was decommissioned and scrapped in 1865. Modern historians are unable to determine which is true. |
 | | Seventy years later, the aircraft carrier Lexington was launched in 1927 with the registry number of CV-2. She served the U.S. Navy until her sinking at the Battle of Coral Sea in 1942. |
 | | A replacement for this ship, an Essex-class fleet aircraft carrier with the registry number CV-16, was launched in 1943 and served until 1994, when she was finally decommissioned. This ship can be seen at the Fleet Museum in San Francisco, Terra. |
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