Helicopter Carriers of the United States

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Helicopter Carriers of the United States

Helicopter Carriers Typically smaller aircraft carriers with no/ short landing strip Can be older strip deck carriers transferred to helicopter carrier Also called amphibious assault ship

Commencement Bay Class First Helicopter Carrrier Commencement Bay Class

USS Block Island CVE-106/LPH-1 Conversion Canceled

First helicopter carriers, transferred after Midway class was built Essex Class

USS Boxer CV-21 Prime recovery vessel for the Apollo AS-201 mission LPH-4 First of Essex class to be converted

USS Princeton CV-37 Last mission was recovery for Apollo 10 mission LPH-5

USS Valley Forge CV-45 She was the prime recovery vessel for an early unmanned Mercury space mission LPH-8

Casablanca Class

USS Thetis Bay CVE-90/CVHA-1/LPH-6 Reclassified twice

First class built as helicopter carrier from the start Iwo Jima Class

USS Iwo Jima LPH-2 Named after the Battle of Iwo Jima

USS Okinawa LPH-3 Expended as a target

USS Guadalcanal LPH-7 Recovered Gemini X astronauts

USS Guam LPH-9 vessel for Admiral Elmo Zumwalts Sea Control Ship concept

USS Tripoli LPH-10 sponsored by Mrs. Jane Cates

USS New Orleans LPH-11 Named for the last battle of 1812

USS Inchon LPH-12 Inchon was redesignated a Mine Countermeasures Command and Support Ship, MCS-12, on 6 March 1995,

Tarawa Class

USS Tarawa LHA-1 Awaiting disposal

USS Saipan LHA-2 From March 1990 through September 1990, was deployed for the fifth time to the Mediterranean

USS Bellau Wood LHA-3 nicknamed "Devil Dog",

USS Nassau LHA-4 Nassau became the flagship for Commander, Amphibious Task Force and the 4th MEB's Commanding General

USS Peleliu LHA-5 Originally to be named the Khe Sanh and then Da Nang, Peleliu's keel was laid down in 1976

Second Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) class Wasp Class

USS Wasp LHD-1 accommodates the full range of Navy and Marine Corps helicopters, conventional landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.

USS Essex LHD-2 Fifth (5th) ship to be named after Essex county, Massachusetts

USS Kearsarge LHD-3 Named after mount Kearsarge, Massachusetts

USS Boxer LHD-4 The Boxer is designated as the flagship of Combined Task Force 151, the international anti-piracy task force pursuing pirates off the coast of Somalia

USS Bataan LHD-5 Commissioned: 20 September 1997

USS Bonne Homme Richard LHD-6 Bon Homme Richard is currently scheduled to switch homeports in Spring 2012 when it will take the place of the USS Essex (LHD-2) as the command ship for Expeditionary Strike Group Seven in Sasebo, Japan.

USS Iwo Jima LHD-7 First ship publicly released after 9/11 attacks

USS Makin Island LHD-8 The secondary/convertible mission for Makin Island is that of sea control and power projection

Planned class America Class

USS America No other info specified or ships specified just 12 planned