Allied Warships

Light fleet carriers


The Independence class light fleet carrier USS Belleau Wood (CVL 24) of the US Navy.

All Light fleet carrier classes

The list is divided by navy, then ordered by commissioned date of each class (oldest first).

Commissioned

US Navy

 Independence (9)1943 - 1943

1 ship classes.


Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), those ships are not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Light fleet carriers


 DateVesselClass

1944

US Navy24 Oct 1944USS Princeton(i) (CVL 23)Independence 

1 Light fleet carriers lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

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