Talk:Lexington class battle cruiser

This article should be merged with the Lexington class aircraft carrier article, since the Lexington-class battlecruiser development led directly into the aircraft carriers. Iceberg3k 16:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Disagree. They were different classes with different ships, no matter what influence one had upon the other. We have numerous articles on the different classes of destroyers, even when the structural differences are relatively minor. They are important in their own right. Jinian 16:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The classes are different only in that four of the incomplete battlecruiser hulls were scrapped instead of being converted like the first and third. Operationally, the Lexington class battlecruiser development program is only important in that it became an aircraft carrier development program due to the Washington Treaty. Iceberg3k 17:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Agree with Jinian. These were truly distinctive ships, representing the first real venture into ships of this type. While it is significant that two of these ships eventually became aircraft carriers, and did, in fact shape future aircraft carrier design, they also represented a unique class and type of vessel the US Navy had not previously attempted to build. This class embodied a design philosophy not seen in the US Navy before or since.214.13.60.74 10:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)Desertmole
 * Disagree as well. Since consensus seems to be to keep them separate, I will remove the merge notice. TomTheHand 17:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Not Battlecruisers?

 * "As with the later Alaska-class large cruisers, the Lexington ships were an outgrowth of contemporary American cruiser designs, not battleships or battlecruisers."

The above quote is patently untrue. The Lexingtons were battlecruisers, were designed as such and even the US Navy described them as Battlecruisers. HMS Invincible's stemmed from British armoured cruiser designs too, but that didn't make her any less a Battlecruiser... I have deleted the offending passage. Getztashida 15:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)