Unites States Aircraft Carriers.

The United States aircraft carriers are warships that envolved from balloon-carrying wooden vessels into nucleair-powerd vessels carrying many dozens of fixed- and rotary-wing aircrafts. Since their introduction they have been allowed naval forces to protect air-power great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations. So aircraft carriers act as sea going airbases for carrier-based aircrafts. In the United States Navy, these ships are designated with hull classification numbers to identify the ships. Aircraft Carriers intended to operate with the main fleet were numbered in the “CV” series, which was originated as part of the cruiser (“C”) group of designations. During and after World War II, ships in the CV series were frequently given modified designations, including CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVAN (nuclear-powered attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light/small aircraft carrier), CVN (nuclear-powered aircraft carrier), CVS (anti-submarine warfare support aircraft carrier) and CVT (training aircraft carrier). All of these expanded designations were numbered in the original CV series.

World War II also generated a separate number series for aircraft carriers that were intended for auxiliary purposes such as escorting convoys, transporting aircraft and other missions which did not require the high speed of the CV series ships. Originally called Aircraft Escort Vessels (AVG), then Auxiliary Aircraft Carriers (ACV), they were finally termed Escort Aircraft Carriers (CVE). During the mid-1950s, many CVEs were redesignated as Escort Helicopter Aircraft Carriers (CVHE) and Utility Aircraft Carriers (CVU). These retained their original CVE series numbers.

Abbriviation	Type of Aircraft Carrier
ACV	Aircraft Carrier, Auxiliary
AVG	Escort Carrier, Auxiliary
AVT	Aircraft Carrier, Training Ship
CV	Aircraft Carrier
CVA	Aircraft Carrier, Attack
CVAN	Aircraft Carrier, Nuclear Powered
CVB	Aircraft Carrier, Large
CVE	Aircraft Carrier, Escort
CVGH	Aircraft Carrier, Guided Missile Helicopter
CVH	Aircraft Carrier, Helicopter
CVHA	Aircraft Carrier, Helicopter Assault
CVHE	Aircraft Carrier, Escort, Helicopter
CVL	Aircraft Carrier, Light
CVN	Aircraft Carrier, Nuclear Powered
CVS	Prior to 1957, Seaplane Carrier
CVS	After 1957, Anti-Submarine/Support Carrier
CVT	Aircraft Carrier, Training Ship
CVU	Aircraft Carrier, Utility
CVV	Aircraft Carrier, Vertical Take off and Launch

US Aircraft Carriers (CV, CVA, CVB, CVL, CVN)

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CV-1	Langley	Langley	20-03-1922	27-02-1949	Sunk near Cilacap, Java in 1942
CV-2	Lexington	Lexington	14-12-1927	08-05-1942	Sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
CV-3	Saratoga	Lexington	16-11-1927	16-07-1946	Sunk as target ship near Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946
CV-4	Ranger	Ranger	04-06-1934	18-10-1946	Scrapped in 1947
CV-5	Yorktown	Yorktown	30-09-1937	07-06-1942	Sunk in the Battle of Midway in 1942
CV-6	Enterprise	Yorktown	12-05-1938	17-02-1947	Scrapped in 1960
CV-7	Wasp	Wasp	25-04-1940	15-09-1942	Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942
CV-8	Hornet	Yorktown	20-10-1941	27-10-1942	Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in 1942

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CV-9	Essex	Essex	31-12-1942	20-06-1969	Scrapped in 1975
CV-10	Yorktown	Essex	15-04-1943	27-06-1970	Preserved at the Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum—Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA
CV-11	Intrepid	Essex	16-08-1943	15-03-1974	Preserved at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum—New York City, New York, USA
CV-12	Hornet	Essex	29-11-1943	26-05-1970	Preserved at USS Hornet Museum—Alameda, California, USA
CV-13	Franklin	Essex	31-01-1944	17-02-1947	Scrapped in 1966
CV-14	Ticonderoga	Essex (ext)	08--05-1944	01-09-1973	Scrapped in 1975
CV-15	Randolph	Essex (ext)	09-10-1944	13-02-1969	Scrapped in 1975
CV-16	Lexington	Essex	17-02-1943	08-11-1991	Preserved at USS Lexington Museum on the Bay— Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CV-17	Bunker Hill	Essex	25-05-1943	09-07-1947	Scrapped in 1973
CV-18	Wasp	Essex	24-11-1943	01-07-1972	Scrapped in 1973
CV-19	Hancock	Essex	15-04-1944	30-01-1970	Scrapped in 1976
CV-20	Bennington	Essex	06-08-1944	15-01-1970	Scrapped in 1994
CV-21	Boxer	Essex (ext)	16-04-1945	01-12-1969	Scrapped in 1971
CVL-22	Independence	Independence	14-01-1943	28-08-1946	Sunk as target ship near the Farallon Islands in 1951
CVL-23	Princeton	Independence	25-02-1943	24-10-1944	Sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944
CVL-24	Belleau Wood	Independence	31-03-1943	13-01-1947	Scrapped in 1960

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CVL-25	Cowpens	Independence	28-05-1943	13-01-1947	Scrapped in 1960
CVL-26	Monterey	Independence	17-06-1943	16-01-1956	Scrapped in 1971
CVL-27	Langley	Independence	31-08-1943	11-02-1947	Scrapped in 1964
CVL-28	Cabot	Independence	24-07-1943	21-01-1955	Scrapped in 2002
CVL-29	Bataan	Independence	17-11-1943	09-04-1954	Scrapped in 1961
CVL-30	San Jacinto	Independence	15-12-1943	01-03-1947	Scrapped in 1972
CV-31	Bon Homme Richard	Essex	24-11-1944	02-07-1971	Scrapped in 1992
CV-32	Leyte	Essex (ext)	11-04-1946	15-05-1959	Scrapped in 1970

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CV-33	Kearsarge	Essex (ext)	02-05-1946	15-01-1970	Scrapped in 1974
CV-34	Oriskany	Essex (ext)	25-09-1950	20-09-1979	Scuttled as artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006
CV-35	Reprisal	Essex (ext)	-	-	Cancelled during construction. Scrapped in 1949
CV-36	Antietam	Essex (ext)	28-01-1945	08-05-1963	Scrapped in 1974
CV-37	Princeton	Essex (ext)	18-11-1945	30-01-1970	Scrapped in 1971
CV-38	Shangri-La	Essex (ext)	15-09-1944	30-07-1971	Scrapped in 1988
CV-39	Lake Champlain	Essex (ext)	03-07-1945	02-05-1966	Scrapped in 1972
CV-40	Tarawa	Essex (ext)	08-12-1945	13-05-1960	Scrapped in 1968

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CV-41	Midway	Midway	10-09-1945	11-04-1992	Preserved at the USS Midway Museum—San Diego, California, USA
CVB-42	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Midway	27-10-1945	01-10-1977	Scrapped in 1978
CVB-43	Coral Sea	Midway	01-10-1947	26-04-1990	Scrapped in 2000
CV-44	No name assigned	Midway	-	-	Cancelled before construction began.
CV-45	Valley Forge	Essex (ext)	03-11-1946	15-01-1970	Scrapped in 1971
CV-46	Iwo Jima	Essex (ext)	-	-	Cancelled during construction. Scrapped in 1949
CV-47	Philippine	Essex (ext)	11-05-1946	28-12-1958	Scrapped in 1971
CVL-48	Saipan	Saipan	14-07-1946	14-01-1970	Scrapped in 1976

CV-44 canceled before construction began

CV-46 cancelled during construction, scraped in 1949

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Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CVL-49	Wright	Saipan	09-02-1947	15-03-1956	Scrapped in 1980
CV-50	No name assigned	Essex			Cancelled before construction began.
CV-51	No nams assigned	Essex			Cancelled before construction began.
CV-52	No name assigned	Essex			Cancelled before construction began.
CV-53	No name assigned	Essex			Cancelled before construction began.
CV-54	No name assigned	Essex			Cancelled before construction began.
CV-55	No name assigned	Essex			Cancelled before construction began.
CVB-56	No name assigned				Cancelled before construction began.
CVB-57	No name assigned				Cancelled before construction began.
CVA-58	United States	United States			Cancelled during construction. Scrapped on slip in 1949
CV-59	Forrestal	Forrestal	01-10-1955	30-09-1993	Scrapped in 2015
CV-60	Saratoga	Forrestal	14-04-1956	20-08-1994	Scrapped in 2019
CV-61	Ranger	Forrestal	10-08-1957	10-07-1993	Scrapped in 2017
CV-62	Independence	Forrestal	10-01-1959	30-09-1998	Scrapped in 2019
CV-63	Kitty Hawk	Kitty Hawk	29-04-1961	12-05-2009	Undergoing scrappingdergoing scrapping
CV-64	Constallation	Kitty Hawk	27-10-1961	07-08-2003	Scrapped in 2017

CV-50 …. CV-58 cancelled before construction began

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CVN-65	Enterprise	Enterprise	25-11-1961	03-02-2017	Struck, to be scrapped
CV-66	America	Kitty Hawk	23-01-1965	09-08-1996	Sunk as target ship in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005
CV-67	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy	07-09-1968	23-03-2007	Sold for scrap in 2021
CVN-68	Nimitz	Nimitz	03-05-1975	-	Stationed at Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington
CVN-69	Dwight d. Eisenhouwer	Nimitz	18-10-1977	-	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia
CVN-70	Carl Vinson	Nimitz	13-03-1982	-	Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California
CVN-71	Theodore Roosevelt	Nimitz	25-10-1986	-	Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California
CVN-72	Abraham Lincoln	Nimitz	11-11-1989	-	Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California

Hull	Name	Class	Commisioned	Decommisioned	Status
CVN-73	George Wahington	Nimitz	04-07-1992	-	Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California
CVN-74	John C. Stennis	Nimitz	09-12-1995	-	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia
CVN-75	Harry S. Truman	Nimitz	25-07-1998	-	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia
CVN-76	Ronald reagan	Nimitz	12-07-2003	-	Stationed at Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan
CVN-77	George H.W. Bush	Nimitz	10-01-2009	-	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia
CVN-78	Gerald R. Ford	Gerald R. Ford	22-07-2017	-	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia
CVN-79	John F. Kennedy	Gerald R. Ford	planned 2025	-	Fitting out
CVN-80	Enterprise	Gerald R. Ford	Planned 2028	-	Under construction
CVN-81	Doris Miller	Gerald R. Ford	Planned 2032	-	Under construction
CVN-82	TBA	Gerald R. Ford	planned 2034	-	Ordered

CVN-81 No images available

CVN-82 No images available

The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk.

Escort Aircraft Carrier (CVE, ACV, AVG)

The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (US hull classification symbol CVE), also called a “jeep carrier” or “baby flattop” in the US Navy or “Woolworth Carrier” by the Royal Navy, was a small and slower type of aircraft carrier mainly used in World War II. They were typically half the length and a third the displacement of larger fleet carriers, more-lightly armed and armored, and carried fewer planes. Escort carriers were most often
built upon a commercial ship hull, so they were cheaper and could be built quickly. This was their principal advantage as they could be completed in
greater numbers as a stop-gap when fleet carriers were scarce. However, the lack of protection made escort carriers particularly vulnerable, and several were sunk with great loss of life. Escort carriers were too slow to keep up with the main forces consisting of fleet carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Instead, they were used to escort merchant ship convoys, defending them from enemy threats such as submarines and planes. In the invasions of mainland Europe and Pacific islands, escort carriers provided air support to ground forces during amphibious operations. Escort carriers also served as backup aircraft transports for fleet carriers, and ferried aircraft of all military services to points of delivery.

During the Second World War, 151 aircraft carriers were built, 122 were escort carriers. A number of these carriers were transferred to the Royal Navy (UK hull classification DB).

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