USS Lexington

The fourth USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed the "Gray Lady" or "Lady Lex", was an early aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was the name ship of the Lexington class, though her sister ship Saratoga was commissioned a month earlier.

Lexington in "News From the Front"
The Lexington was sunk in the Coral Sea during a battle with the Japanese Navy in 1942. Its sinking was reported on by the Los Angeles Times, and became another black eye for the Roosevelt Administration.