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She was originally classified as a light cruiser, CL-28, because of her thin armor. Effective 1 July 1931, Louisville was redesignated a heavy cruiser , CA-28, because of her 8-inch guns in accordance with the provisions of the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
The new designations were CVB (Aircraft carrier, large) for the 45,000 long tons (46,000 t) carriers being built, and CVL (Aircraft carriers, small) for the 10,000 long tons (10,000 t) class built on light cruiser hulls. [9] The same directive reclassified escort carriers as combatant ships, and changed their symbol from ACV to CVE. [9]
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1]
Clemenceau: aircraft carrier in service from 1961 to 1997; Foch: aircraft carrier in service from 1963 to 2000. Refitted, sold to Brazil and renamed São Paulo. Scuttled in 2023; Never completed: Engageante: Friponne-class sloop planned for conversion but not completed [4]
A few aircraft carriers have been preserved as museum ships. They are: USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; USS Intrepid (CV-11) in New York City; USS Hornet (CV-12) in Alameda, California; USS Lexington (CV-16) in Corpus Christi, Texas; USS Midway (CV-41) in San Diego, California; Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev in Tianjin, China
Monterey was relieved as a training carrier by Saipan, which had previously served at Pensacola as a training carrier between 1946 and 1947. [3] From 1 to 11 October 1954, she took part in a flood rescue mission in Honduras. She departed Pensacola on 9 June 1955 and steamed to rejoin the reserve fleet. She was decommissioned on 16 January 1956.
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The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.