NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive
Contributed by Mike Smolinski
| Commanding Officers | ||||
 NS-cv16-co01 | CAPT Felix Budwell Stump | USNA 1917 | 17 February 1943 - 10 April 1944 | ADM |
| CAPT Ernest Wheeler Litch | USNA 1920 (1) | 10 April 1944 - 30 January 1945 | VADM | |
| CAPT Thomas Hinckley Robbins, Jr. | USNA 1920 (1) | 30 January 1945 - 18 November 1945 | RADM | |
| CAPT Bradford Ellsworth Grow | USNA 1922 | 18 November 1945 - 11 October 1946 | RADM | |
| CAPT William Alexander Sutherland, Jr. | USNA 1927 | 11 October 1946 - 23 April 1947 | RADM | |
| Decommissioned | ||||
 NS-cv16-co02 | CAPT Alexander Salley Heyward, Jr. | USNA 1930 | 15 August 1955 - 4 October 1956 | VADM |
| CAPT John Wendell Gannon | USNA 1931 | 4 October 1956 - 19 September 1957 | RADM | |
| CAPT Burl Leonidas Bailey | USNA 1932 | 19 September 1957 - 23 July 1958 | ||
| CAPT James Robert Reedy | USNA 1933 | 23 July 1958 - 16 June 1959 | RADM | |
 NS-cv16-co03 | CAPT Stanley Erdman Ruehlow | USNA 1935 | 16 June 1959 - 8 July 1960 | |
| CAPT Stockton Birney Strong | USNA 1937 | 8 July 1960 - 23 July 1961 | ||
| CAPT Hart Dale Hilton | NAVCAD 1937 | 23 July 1961 - 18 July 1962 | ||
| CAPT Lucien Cletus Powell, Jr. | USNA 1939 | 18 July 1962 - 26 July 1963 | ||
 NS-cv16-co04 | CAPT John Meredith Miller | USNA 1940 | 26 July 1963 - 10 June 1964 | |
| CAPT Quentin Claiborne Crommelin | USNA 1941 | 10 June 1964 - 9 June 1965 | ||
| CAPT Gordon Alva Snyder | USNA 1943 (2) | 9 June 1965 - 19 August 1966 | ||
| CAPT Jack Charles Heishman | USNR? 1942 | 19 August 1966 - 10 August 1967 | ||
 NS-cv16-co05 | CAPT Edward William Gendron | USNR? 1943 | 10 August 1967 - 10 January 1969 | |
| CAPT Wayne Elden Hammett | USNR? 1944 | 10 January 1969 - 26 March 1970 | ||
| CAPT Cyrus Falconer Fitton | NAVCAD 1943 | 26 March 1970 - 14 April 1971 | ||
| CAPT Jack Edward Davis | USNR? 1945 | 14 April 1971 - 21 December 1972 | ||
 NS-cv16-co06 | CAPT Charles Curtis Carter | USNA 1953 | 21 December 1972 - 24 August 1973 | |
| CAPT Jack Edward Davis | USNR? 1945 | 24 August 1973 - 8 November 1973 | ||
| CAPT Donald Edsel Moore | USNR 1950 | 8 November 1973 - 9 July 1975 | ||
| CAPT Thornwell Frank Rush | USNA 1951 | 9 July 1975 - 25 May 1977 | ||
| CAPT Eugene Barker ("Red") McDaniel | USNR? 1956 | 25 May 1977 - 30 November 1978 | ||
 NS-cv16-co07 | CAPT Philip Edwin Johnson | USNR? 1952 | 30 November 1978 - June 1980 | |
| CAPT William Holland Green, Jr. | USNA 1958 | June 1980 - 4 December 1981 | ||
| CAPT James Wallace Ryan | NAVCAD 1955 | 4 December 1981 - 28 June 1983 | ||
| CAPT Harold John Bernsen | NROTC 1958 | 28 June 1983 - 14 December 1984 | RADM | |
 NS-cv16-co08 | CAPT Paul Michael Feran | NAVCAD 1958 | 14 December 1984 - 25 November 1986 | |
| CAPT Haywood Galbraith ("Woodie") Sprouse | NAVCAD 1961 | 25 November 1986 - 27 May 1988 | ||
| CAPT Carl Flack Logan | USNA 1963 | 27 May 1988 - 18 December 1990 | ||
| CAPT William Henry Kennedy | AOCP 1965 | 18 December 1990 - 26 November 1991 | ||
| (1) Graduated on 6 June 1919 with the Class of 1920. [Back] (2) Graduated on 19 June 1942 with the Class of 1943. [Back] | ||||
Sources: USS Lexington Association;
Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler.
Photos contributed by Robert M. Cieri and Wolfgang Hechler.
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