Photos Aircraft Carriers

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America’s second and third aircraft carriers began life as a pair of battle cruisers, but after the Washington Naval Conference, which limited the number and size of capital ships, the vessels were finished to serve a different purpose. The relatively new ships were photographed at Puget Sound Navy Yard in September 1928. USS Lexington (CV-2), moored on the left, and USS Saratoga (CV-3) were nearly identical except for a walkway across the funnel on the latter. (National Archives/U.S. Navy.)

 

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Imperial Japan:
Aircraft carrier Akagi and battleship Nagato at Yokusuka, August 1930

 

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VSTOL carrier HMS Illustrious leaving Grand Harbour, Malta, overlooked by the old cannon of the Saluting Battery

 

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Aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, codename 'Robin', refuels from the USS Cimarron, in the Pacific, 1943

 

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Museum ship USS Lexington CV-16 in Corpus Christi, TX.

 

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USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) underway, Monday, 8 May 1944, the day she went into commission.

USS Ticonderoga after sustaining a hit from a kamikaze on January 1945.

 

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FSR.1 Sea Harrier prepared for a sortie on the flight deck of HMS Hermes, Falklands 1982

 

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) at Brooklyn Navy Yard awaiting her fate as future USS Independence (CVA-62) is being fitted out opposite of the pier, 1958

USS Enterprise CVN-65 with three C-1 traders parked aft, shortly after she was built.

 

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Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) transits the Philippine Sea at night, May 25, 2021.

210527-N-VC236-1151 PHILIPPINE SEA (May 27, 2021) The U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), conducts a fueling-at-sea with fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 195). Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the United States, as well as the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackie Hart)

 

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HMS Queen Elizabeth R08 and HMS Prince Of Wales R09, 19 May off the UK South Coast.

HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) with NATO Standing Maritime Groups One and Two, May 2021

HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)

HMS Prince of Wales (R09) at Portsmouth

 

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USS Halibut (SSGN-587) firing a Regulus missile next to USS Lexington (CV-16), 25 March 1960

 

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France & Singapore:
FS Tonnerre, RSS Steadfast and FS Surcouf sailing in formation during the exercise. May 2021

 

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Taken from USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), entering Ulithi Lagoon on December 8, 1944 shows the famous "Murderers Row" (there were 7 fleet carriers in anchorage, plus multiple light and escort carriers)

 

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USS Carl Vinson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, May 29th 2021, taken from the flight deck of the USS Midway

 

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A Boeing F4B-4 of VF-68 prepares for take-off from USS Saratoga (CV-3), 1934

 

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HMS Furious after modernisation in 1938

A Fairey Swordfish of 824 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm with its wings folded going down the lift of HMS ACTIVITY, commanded by Captain Guy Willoughby RN. A second aircraft in charge of its crew is waiting beyond the lift. Note the extreme narrowness of the bridge from which the ship is controlled, on the right hand side of the flight deck. Creator: Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer Source: © IWM (A 18270)

12 August 1942, 7:00 pm, North-East of Bizerte, Tunisia. Light cruiser HMS Charybdis (on the right) provides anti-aircraft and anti-submarine protection of the heavily damaged aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable amid Operation Pedestal.

HMS Indomitable off Norfolk, 30 Mar 1944

 

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USS Kearsarge (CV-33) at Golfe Juan, France, August 1948

 

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USS Carl Vinson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, May 29th 2021, taken from the flight deck of the USS Midway
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Soviet Yak-38 Forger taking off from a Kiev class aircraft cruiser

 

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Russian Federation Flight Ops Off The Admiral Kuznetsov​

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