USS Lexington may refer to these ships of the United States Navy: , a brigantine acquired in 1776 and captured in 1777 , a sloop-of-war in commission from 1826–1830 and 1831–1855 , a timber-clad gunboat in commission from 1861–1865 , later USS SP-705, a patrol vessel in commission from 1917–1918 , a , converted to CV-2 in 1922 , a commissioned in 1927 and sunk in 1942 , an in commission from 1943–1991, now a museum in Corpus Christi, Texas