Even the old Langley, CV-1, which had been converted to a seaplane tender, AV-3, had a carrier named for it when it was sunk on February 27, 1942. These included Yorktown, Wasp, Hornet, and Princeton. This began a precedent, as each fleet carrier that was lost during the war had a new carrier under construction named for it. She had originally been named USS Cabot, but the name was changed to Lexington, when the first carrier to bear that name, CV-2, was lost at the Battle of Coral Sea on May 8, 1942. Stump, USN, became the first commanding officer.
The USS Lexington, CV-16, was built at the Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts, and was commissioned at the South Boston Navy Yard on February 17, 1943.
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