USS Lexington Corpus Christi Bay
— the Blue Ghost, kept at her last anchor.
Not only on a wall.
USS Lexington Corpus Christi Bay, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“An Essex-class aircraft carrier, painted the dark navy blue she wore in the Pacific. The Japanese reported her sunk four times during the war; each time she came back, and the broadcasts gave her the name that stuck. She has been moored at Corpus Christi since 1992, the flight deck open to walk, the bay water flat behind her. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
The USS Lexington (CV-16) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned in February 1943 and now permanently moored as a museum ship on the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay. She is 910 feet long with a flight deck displacement around 36,000 tons, and earned 11 battle stars in World War II Pacific operations. The ship arrived in Corpus Christi in June 1992 and opened to the public that October. She is a National Historic Landmark.
Lexington served from 1943 through decommissioning in 1991, the longest active carrier in U.S. Navy history at 48 years. She fought at Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Philippine Sea, and Leyte Gulf. After the war she was modernised twice and spent decades training naval aviators out of Pensacola, where most carrier pilots of the Vietnam and early jet era took their first traps on her deck. The Navy struck her name in November 1991.
The ship sits at 2914 North Shoreline Boulevard, across the harbour bridge from downtown Corpus Christi. Five self-guided tour routes cover the flight deck, the hangar bay, the bridge, engineering spaces, and the foc'sle, and walking all five takes most of a day. About twenty restored aircraft sit on the flight deck, including an SBD Dauntless and an A-4 Skyhawk. The museum opens daily; standard adult admission runs in the low $20s.
