Helicopter Carriers of the United States

Typically smaller aircraft carriers with no/ short landing strip

Can be older strip deck carriers transferred to helicopter carrier

Also called amphibious assault ship

Helicopter Carriers

Commencement Bay ClassFirst Helicopter Carrrier

USS Block Island

CVE-106/LPH-1 Conversion Canceled

Essex Class

First helicopter carriers, transferred after Midway class was built

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

Iwo Jima Class

First class built as helicopter carrier from the start

USS Iwo Jima

LPH-2 Named after the

Battle of Iwo Jima

LPH-3 Expended as a target

USS Okinawa

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

Wasp ClassSecond Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) 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

America ClassPlanned class

No other info specified or ships specified just 12 planned

USS America