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This is a photo of the USS Lexington's (CV-2) "plank owner" commander, Captain (later, Read Admiral) Albert Ware Marshall, next to a "World Records" plaque affixed to the ship commemorating the ship's speed record described below in an Associated Press report in the Tuesday, June 12, 1928 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune: NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER SETS WORLD RECORD

Washington, D.C., June 11. - (AP) - By steaming over the waters of the Pacific Ocean at an average speed of 29.2 knots an hour for 24 hours, the giant aircraft carrier Lexington established a world record day's run of 700 nautical miles. When the commander of the 33,000 ton vessel advised the Navy Department of the achievement today, the Lexington was traveling 30.4 knots an hour and indications were that she may surpass the record the first 24 hours on her 2,228 nautical mile trip from San Pedro, Cal., to Honolulu, where she is due to arrive tomorrow at 1 p.m. Captain A.W. Marshall, skipper of the powerful craft, reported that the vessel weighed anchor at San Pedro at noon Saturday.

See also: www.findagrave.com/memorial/58390545/albert-ware-marshall

This is USS Lexington (CV-2). She has no vertical funnel stripe - but is operating with a Pensacola-class cruiser. The Pensacolas only entered service in 1929-1930, so by the time either of them was in the Pacific, Saratoga would have had a vertical stack stripe. I believe this is 1931-1933, and that the cruiser is Pensacola (CA-24) herself - but the details are indistinct so it could be her sister Salt Lake City (CA-25).

This is between Saratoga's early February 1928 arrival in the Pacific, and January 1929. The two battleships at right are Pennsylvania (BB-38) and Arizona (BB-39) in that order from right to left. After January 1929 it would be impossible for those two ships to be together with cage masts, as they were both modernized to tripod masts beginning in 1929. The battleship center distant is either Florida (BB-30) or Utah (BB-31). The two ships at left are either Colorado or Tennessee-class, but the details are too indistinct to identify them.