#U.S.S. Lexington

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Yes, saucer separation WAS possible with the Constitution-class starships from Star Trek: The Original Series, as demonstrated by this model of the U.S.S. Lexington NCC-1709.

This was described in the series bible for TOS, as well as the writers/directors guides for each season. It was never actually shown on screen due to time and budgetary concerns (heck, they could hardly afford to film a shuttlecraft departing/arriving in the shuttle bay).

Saucer separation was, however, referenced in the Season 2 episode The Apple. Kirk ordered Scotty to do it to save the Enterprise when the ship was caught in a rapidly decaying orbit:

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Edward Steichen. The blue ghost. Navy fighter roars from the decks of the U.S.S. Lexington. 1945

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Adventures in Deep Sea Archaeology

Daily writing promptWhat’s a job you would like to do for just one day?View all responses I’m a huge fan of a show called Drain the Oceans. In it, you have teams of researchers armed with the latest in Hi_Tech Deep Sea equipment. They hunt down and analysis famous ship wrecks. So of the ships they visited include the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, and the wrecks that followed the battle of…

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Here's a bit about that, https://www.southsoundtalk.com/2020/02/28/that-time-the-uss-lexington-saved-tacoma/

The story took place 90 years ago and changed how electricity keeps your lights on to this day. Back in those days, Tacoma generated most of its electricity from hydroelectric dams on nearby rivers, namely the Green, Nisqually and Skokomish. A small steam plant along the Foss Waterway, when it was called the City Waterway since the  Foss name didn’t come about until 1990, added to the water-powered facilities. All was fine, relatively, for a while. But the area had outgrown the system’s capacity, particularly since it depended heavily on just enough rain and just enough snowpack to keep the turbines spinning. The summer of 1929 was a dry one, however. The fall didn’t prove much better. Water levels were low as the weather began to turn colder. Conservation efforts got stricter. Cascade Paper Co. all but halted lumber production. It laid off the bulk of its workers since it couldn’t reliably power the mill. Camp Lewis even went so far as to command that barracks go “lights out” at 4:00 p.m. to allow area residents to use the power to heat their homes. ...

Tacoma officials sought solutions to their power crisis wherever they could. They even pled to President Herbert Hoover to come to their aid. Out of that plea came a plan of sending the Navy to the rescue in the form of an aircraft carrier to serve as an impromptu power plant. The Navy didn’t want anything to do with the idea at first. The top brass was won over as negotiations got flowery and conditions got direr, despite protests by Puget Sound Power & Light and also Seattle City Light, saying that there was no power crisis and all was well in hand. In the face of fact that proved to the contrary, the U.S.S. Lexington steamed from its berth in Bremerton and pulled into Tacoma on December 17, 1929. It was, ironically, raining when the carrier arrived. The wet and cold didn’t stop the band from playing and the crowds from cheering as it docked at the Baker Dock. Onshore transformers connected to the ship’s massive power plant then strung a dozen cables to the city’s existing power grid. ...

USS Lexington (CV-2) supplies electricity to Tacoma, Washington, 18 December 1929

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The U.S.S. Saladin, U.S.S. Lexington. and U.S.S. Enterprise gather for a joint mission. I wonder what they're doing?

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I was doing research about if alcohol was allowed on aircraft carriers for a story and learned that the Navy really likes ice cream. And I mean, really likes it according to this article:

“In 1942, as Japanese torpedoes slowly sank the U.S.S. Lexington, then the second-largest aircraft carrier in the Navy’s arsenal, the crew abandoned ship—but not before breaking into the freezer and eating all the ice cream,” writes Matt Siegel in a masterful August essay for The Atlantic on the American military’s odd history with the treat. “Survivors describe scooping ice cream into their helmets and licking them clean before lowering themselves into the Pacific.”

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U.S.S. Valiant rendezvous with U.S.S. Lexington in orbit of Mars by Michael Ramsey

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Some unused Starship GIFS for the Select Starfleet Ships Project

Excelsior-class U.S.S. Excelsior in TNG’s “Flashback”  Galaxy-class U.S.S. Yamato in TNG’s “Contagion”  Constellation-class U.S.S. Hathaway in TNG’s “Redemption Pt 2″* Oberth-class S.S. Vico in TNG’s “Hero Worship” Nebula-class U.S.S. Prometheus in DS9′s “Second Sight” Nebula-class U.S.S. Farragut in “Star Trek: Generations” Nebula-class U.S.S. Lexington in DS9′s “Explorers” Unnamed Excelsior-class in DS9′s “Sacrifice of Angels” Prometheus-class U.S.S. Prometheus in “Message in a Bottle” & “Endgame”*

*according to Memory Alpha, as the labeling on the ships still had the names they bore in the previous episode

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In honor of Photographer Appreciation Month!

Image Description: Page spread with a title on the right page. Left page shows a photo of the photographer standing on the aircraft carrier with his camera.

The Blue Ghost : a photographic log and personal narrative of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington in combat operation Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.   1st ed. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1947. vii, 149 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm. English c1947 HOLLIS number: 990054956360203941

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U.S.S. Lexington (CV-2) passing the Panama Canal.

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Battle above the clouds!

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On this Day: 1 March

1776 – French minister Charles Gravier advised his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English. 1780 – Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only). It was followed by Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1784, New York in 1785, and New Jersey in 1786. Massachusetts abolished slavery through a judicial decision in 1783. 1781 – The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. 1803 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state. The name “Ohio” originated from Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning “great river” or “large creek”. The state was originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory. Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the “Buckeye State” (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as “Buckeyes”. 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. (Side Note: If you ever have the opportunity to go to "Washington on the Brazos", go. They give a very informative and historic presentation there. While you are there go to the "Barrington Living History Farm" just down the road, simply amazing pieces of our collective history.) 1862 – U.S.S. Tyler, Lieutenant Gwin, and U.S.S. Lexington, Lieutenant Shirk, engaged Confederate forces preparing to strongly fortify Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Tennessee. Under cover of the gunboats’ cannon, a landing party of sailors and Army sharpshooters was put ashore from armed boats to determine Confederate strength in the area. Flag Officer Foote commended Gwin for his successful “amphibious” attack where several sailors met their death along with their Army comrades. At the same time he added: “But I must give a general order that no commander will land men to make an attack on shore. Our gunboats are to be used as forts, and as they have no more men than are necessary to man the guns, and as the Army must do the shore work, and as the enemy want nothing better than to entice our men on shore and overpower them with superior numbers, the commanders must not operate on shore, but confine themselves to their vessels.” 1864 – President Lincoln nominates Ulysses S. Grant for the newly revived rank of lieutenant general 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed. 1941 – “Captain America” first appeared in a comic book. 1941 – Nazi extermination camps begin full operation. These include Auschwitz, Bamberg, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Jena, Sobibor and Treblinka. Over 2.600.000 Polish Jews are among those killed during the course of the war. Over 12.000 people would be killed daily at Auschwitz alone. By 1945 nearly 6 million Jews and more than 3 million Communists, gypsies, socialists and other dissidents will be exterminated. 1941 – The US Navy forms a Support Force for the Atlantic Fleet. The main part of this unit is made up from three destroyer squadrons of 27 ships. 1941 – Nashville radio station W47NV begins transmitting. The station was the first in the country to receive a license for FM radio transmission: All previous commercial stations transmitted via AM, which was more prone to static and interference. The station started its FM broadcast with a commercial for Nashville’s Standard Candy Company. 1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. 1971 – A bomb explodes in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., causing an estimated $300,000 in damage but hurting no one. A group calling itself the “Weather Underground” claimed credit for the bombing, which was done in protest of the ongoing U.S.-supported Laos invasion.

Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

*BRUCE, DANIEL D. Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, Headquarters and Service Company, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Place and date: Fire Support Base Tomahawk, Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam, 1 March 1969. Entered service at: Chicago, 111. Born: 18 May 1950, Michigan City, Ind. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a mortar man with Headquarters and Service Company 3d Battalion, against the enemy. Early in the morning Pfc. Bruce was on watch in his night defensive position at fire support base tomahawk when he heard movements ahead of him. An enemy explosive charge was thrown toward his position and he reacted instantly, catching the device and shouting to alert his companions. Realizing the danger to the adjacent position with its 2 occupants, Pfc. Bruce held the device to his body and attempted to carry it from the vicinity of the entrenched marines. As he moved away, the charge detonated and he absorbed the full force of the explosion. Pfc. Bruce’s indomitable courage, inspiring valor and selfless devotion to duty saved the lives of 3 of his fellow marines and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.

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U.S.S. Lexington 

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Sinking of the U.S.S. Lexington, Battle of the Coral Sea, 8 May 1942

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Charles Edward Adams III (“Skip”), age 76, passed away on April 24, 2020 at the Pine Knoll Nursing Center in Lexington, MA from COVID-19 related complications coupled with a valiant 25+ year battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Born in Lynn, MA on August, 20 1943, he was the son of the late Charles E. Adams, Jr. and the late Elizabeth P. Adams. He graduated from Weymouth High School in 1961 and soon after, joined the Navy. He is a combat zone veteran of the U.S. Navy during the War in Vietnam. He served four years in the Navy, 1963-1967, and served as a hospital corpsman aboard the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt alongside his lifelong friend, Fred Cahoon. He was honorably discharged as an E-2. He traveled the world and always spoke of how those were the best memories of his life besides his time with his children and family.

Charlie studied pre-med at Northeastern University for a time and received professional licensure in insurance and real estate soon after that. He was a brilliant and articulate speaker and communicator and thrived in countless sales roles throughout his life. He was a natural networker and fearless about pitching his latest ideas. He loved to write letters, poetry, and read science magazines. Discussing the latest theories relating to physics and creation especially excited him. Later in life, he sought the connection between spirituality and ontology.

He was an active Mason, and faithfully attended UU and UCC churches in Billerica, MA, Westborough, MA, Lowell, MA, New Mexico, and Jamaica Plain, MA. He volunteered, while living in Lowell, MA, to help tutor kids and help them with their homework after school. He loved to rescue old cars at the end of their lives and drive his kids around in them. His personality was effusive, gregarious, charming, conversationalist, and irredeemably optimistic. These qualities made friendships occur naturally.  Charlie would want you to know that he was extremely human and subject to the same impulses, temptations, angers, fears, and anxieties which characterize the human condition. It will remain his primary wish for you reading this now, to trust God and focus on relationships, forgiveness, and love. These are eternal.

He is survived by his 6 children, 8 grandchildren, 5 siblings (Janet Oyer, Grant Adams, John Adams, Gail Fanselow and David Adams), many nieces and nephews, cousins, and dear friends. He was the ex-husband of Ardy (Martell) Greatorex who was the mother of April Adams, Heather McKeown, and Kristen Scott, and the ex-husband of Donna (Patterson) Adams who was the mother of Suzanne (O’Connor) Below, Jason D. Adams, and Victoria (Adams) Campbell. He is predeceased by his mother and father whom he adored and will be laid to rest beside at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, ME.

The funeral will be held at Davis Funeral Home in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood located at 89 Walnut Ave., Boston, MA 02119 on May 1, 2020 from 2pm-4pm. In the midst of the current COVID-19 health emergency, social distancing measures require this to be a private service.