Helicopter Carriers

Helicopter Carriers of the United StatesTypically smaller aircraft carriers with no/ short landing stripCan be older strip deck carriers transferred to helicopter carrierAlso called amphibious assault shipHelicopter CarriersCommencement Bay ClassFirst Helicopter CarrrierUSS Block Island

CVE-106/LPH-1Conversion CanceledEssex ClassFirst helicopter carriers, transferred after Midway class was builtUSS Boxer

CV-21Prime recovery vessel for the Apollo AS-201 missionLPH-4First of Essex class to be convertedUSS Princeton

CV-37Last mission was recovery for Apollo 10 missionLPH-5USS Valley Forge

CV-45She was the prime recovery vessel for an early unmanned Mercury space missionLPH-8Casablanca ClassUSS Thetis Bay

CVE-90/CVHA-1/LPH-6Reclassified twiceIwo Jima ClassFirst class built as helicopter carrier from the startUSS Iwo Jima

LPH-2Named after the Battle of Iwo JimaLPH-3Expended as a targetUSS OkinawaUSS Guadalcanal

LPH-7Recovered Gemini X astronautsUSS Guam

LPH-9vessel for Admiral Elmo Zumwalts Sea Control Ship conceptUSS Tripoli

LPH-10sponsored by Mrs. Jane CatesUSS New Orleans

LPH-11Named for the last battle of 1812USS Inchon

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

LHA-1Awaiting disposalUSS Saipan

LHA-2From March 1990 through September 1990, was deployed for the fifth time to the MediterraneanUSS Bellau Wood

LHA-3nicknamed "Devil Dog", USS Nassau

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

LHA-5Originally to be named the Khe Sanh and then DaNang, Peleliu's keel was laid down in 1976 Wasp ClassSecond Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) classUSS Wasp

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

USS Essex

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

LHD-3Named after mount Kearsarge, Massachusetts

USS Boxer

LHD-4The 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-5Commissioned: 20 September 1997USS Bonne Homme Richard

LHD-6Bon 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-7First ship publicly released after 9/11 attacksUSS Makin Island

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

America ClassPlanned classNo other info specified or ships specified just12 plannedUSS America