1. Helicopter Carriers of the United States

2. 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

3. Commencement Bay Class
First Helicopter Carrrier
Commencement Bay Class

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

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

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

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

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

9. Casablanca Class

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

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

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

13. USS Okinawa
LPH-3
Expended as a target

14. USS Guadalcanal
LPH-7
Recovered Gemini X astronauts

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

16. USS Tripoli
LPH-10
sponsored by Mrs. Jane Cates

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

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

19. Tarawa Class

20. USS Tarawa
LHA-1
Awaiting disposal

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

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

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

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

25. Second Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) class
Wasp Class

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

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

28. USS Kearsarge
LHD-3
Named after mount Kearsarge, Massachusetts

29. 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

30. USS Bataan
LHD-5
Commissioned: 20 September 1997

31. 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.

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

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

34. Planned class
America Class

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