Not long ago, Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and an American billionaire, recently made a new discovery in the field of navigation-he and his team discovered the wreckage of the famous aircraft carrier "CV-2 Lexington" during World War II.

The CV-2 Lexington class aircraft carrier was built by the US Navy before World War II, and it was also the first large aircraft carrier of the US Navy. Equipped with four double 8-inch main guns (dismantled in front of Coral Sea in April, 1942), with a maximum speed of 34 knots and a designed displacement of 35,000 tons, 100 aircraft carrier, with the same CV-3 Saratoga.

19411On February 7th, when the Japanese joint fleet attacked Pearl Harbor, the Lexington left Hong Kong as planned to transport the plane to the midway base, but it escaped because it was not in the harbor.

1942 In the Battle of Coral Sea on May 8, 1942, the carrier aircraft taking off from the aircraft carriers Lexington and York City sank and injured the Japanese Navy's Xiangfeng and Xianghe respectively, but Lexington was also severely damaged by the Japanese carrier aircraft.

At noon on May 8, the leaked jet fuel evaporated and gathered in the hangar with the closed bow, which was ignited and exploded. At 17, the captain gave the order to abandon the ship, and then the destroyer USS Phelps DD-360 fired five torpedoes at the burning Lexington. At 2000 hours, the aircraft carrier Lexington sank. Of the 29,565,438+0 members on board, 265,438+06 were buried at the bottom of the sea with the Lexington, and 36 planes disappeared into the sea.

The wreck of this ship was discovered on March 5th, 2008+2065438 by the scientific research ship Haiyan owned by billionaire explorer paul allen. The sunken ship is located about 500 miles off the east coast of Australia, two miles underwater.