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List of aircraft carriers
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List_of_aircraft_carriers".
The list of aircraft carriers contains all aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name.
Those listed in Bold are currently in active service.
For listings by other methods, see:
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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- Baku (
 Soviet Navy): 42,000 ton Kiev class hybrid aircraft-carrying cruiser. Commissioned in 1982 and renamed Admiral Gorshkov on 4 October 1990.
- Barnes (
 United States Navy): 14,400 ton Bogue class escort carrier, commissioned 30 September 1942 and immediately transferred to the United Kingdom as HMS Attacker.
- Bataan ( United States Navy): 11,000 Independence class light carrier, commissioned 17 November 1943 through 9 April 1954.
- Battler (
 Royal Navy): 14,400 ton Bogue class escort carrier, former USS Altamaha, commissioned 31 October 1942 through 12 February 1946 when returned to the United States.
- Béarn (
 French Navy): Converted Normandie class battleship in service from 1927 to 1948
- Belleau Wood ( United States Navy): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, commissioned 31 March 1943 through 13 January 1947, later transferred to France as Bois Belleau.
- Bennington ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 6 August 1944 through 15 January 1970.
- Bismarck Sea ( United States Navy): 7800 ton Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier. Commissioned 20 May 1944 and sunk 21 Feb 1945 by kamikaze attack off Iwo Jima.
- Biter ( Royal Navy): Charger class escort carrier in service from 1940 to 1945
- Block Island ( United States Navy): 9800 ton Bogue class escort aircraft carrier. Commissioned 8 March 1943 and sunk 29 May 1944 off the Canary Islands by U-549.
- Bogue ( United States Navy): 9800 ton Bogue class escort carrier. Commissioned 26 September 1942.
- Bon Homme Richard (( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 26 November 1941 through 2 July 1971.
- Bonaventure (
 Royal Canadian Navy): 16,000 ton Majestic class light aircraft carrier. Acquired from the United Kingdom as the incomplete HMS Powerful after 1950, commissioned 15 January 1957, decommissioned 3 July 1970, and broken up in 1971.
- Boxer ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 16 April 1945 through 1 December 1969.
- Bulwark ( Royal Navy): Centaur class aircraft carrier; launched in 1948; converted into a commando carrier in 1960
- Bunker Hill ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 24 May 1943 through 9 January 1947.
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- Dasher ( Royal Navy): 8200 ton aircraft carrier, sunk March 27, 1943
- Dedalo (
 Spanish Navy, 1918): (ex-British merchantman Neuenfels, converted to seaplane carrier in Spain 22 October 1918) - Sunk 18 July 1937
- Dédalo ( Spanish Navy, 1967): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, former USS Cabot, served from 1967 through August 1989.
- Dixmude ( French Navy): Charger class light carrier in service from 1945 to 1966
- Dwight D. Eisenhower ( United States Navy): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 18 October 1977.
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- Hancock ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 15 April 1944 through 30 January 1976.
- Harry S. Truman ( United States Navy): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 25 July 1998.
- Hermes ( Royal Navy): 10,850 ton aircraft carrier, sunk April 9, 1942
- Hermes ( Royal Navy) (1959): Centaur class aircraft carrier built in 1944-1959. In service until 1984 with Royal Navy, and then transferred to India as Viraat
- Hiyō (
 Imperial Japanese Navy) launched 24 June 1941 and commissioned 31 July 1942 sunk 21 June 1944
- Hiryū ( Imperial Japanese Navy) launched 15 November 1937, commissioned 5 July 1939, sunk at the Battle of Midway 5 June 1942.
- Hornet CV-8 ( United States Navy): 25,600 ton Yorktown class fleet carrier, commissioned 20 October 1941 and sunk 27 October 1942.
- Hornet CV-12 ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 29 November 1943 through 26 June 1970.
- Hōshō ( Imperial Japanese Navy)
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- Illustrious ( Royal Navy): 23,000 ton Illustrious class aircraft carrier, decommissioned 1954.
- Illustrious ( Royal Navy): 20,600 ton Invincible class aircraft carrier commissioned 20 June 1982.
- Independence ( United States Navy): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, commissioned 14 January 1943 through 28 August 1946.
- Independence ( United States Navy): 81,100 ton Forrestal class supercarrier, commissioned 10 January 1959 through 30 September 1998.
- Independencia (
 Argentine Navy): 18,300 ton Colossus class aircraft carrier. Purchased as HMS Warrior from the United Kingdom in 1958 and decommissioned 1970, broken up.
- Intrepid ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 16 August 1943 through 15 March 1974.
- Invincible ( Royal Navy): 20,600 ton Invincible class aircraft carrier commissioned 11 July 1980. Decommissioned 3 August 2005.
- Iwo Jima ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, construction cancelled 12 August 1945 and scrapped.
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- Kaga ( Imperial Japanese Navy): 38,200 ton converted Tosa-class fast battleship hull, commissioned 17 November 1921. Sunk 4 June 1942, Battle of Midway.
- Kaiyo ( Imperial Japanese Navy): ex-liner Argentina Maru, converted to 13,600 ton escort carrier in 1943. Scrapped 1946 to 1948.
- Hr.Ms. Karel Doorman (Netherlands): (ex-British HMS Nairana, transferred in 1946) - Returned to Royal Navy for disposal in 1948 and replaced by HMS Venerable
- Katsuragi ( Imperial Japanese Navy): 28,300 ton Unryū-class carrier, commissioned August 10, 1944. Scrapped 1947.
- Kearsarge ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 2 March 1946 through 13 February 1970.
- Kiev ( Soviet Navy): (1972) BU 2000 India
- Kitty Hawk ( United States Navy): 60,000 ton Kitty Hawk class supercarrier in active service, commissioned 21 April 1961.
- Kumano Maru ( Imperial Japanese Navy)
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- La Fayette ( French Navy): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, former USS Langley, serving from 1951 through 1963.
- Lake Champlain ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 3 June 1945 through 2 May 1966.
- Langley ( United States Navy): 11,500 ton light aircraft carrier and seaplane tender, commissioned from 20 March 1922 through 27 February 1942 when sunk.
- Langley ( United States Navy): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, commissioned 31 August 1943 through 11 February 1947, later transferred to France as La Fayette.
- Leningrad ( Soviet Navy)
- Lexington ( United States Navy): 33,000 ton Lexington class fleet carrier, commissioned from 14 December 1927 through 8 May 1942 when sunk.
- Lexington ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned from 17 February 1943 through 8 November 1991.
- Leyte ( United States Navy): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 11 April 1946 through 15 May 1959.
- Long Island ( United States Navy): 13,500 ton Long Island class escort carrier, commissioned 2 June 1941 through 26 March 1946.
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