Introduction

CARRIERS OF THE WORLD WARS
HMS Furious (1917)
HMS Argus (1918)
HMS Eagle (1924)
Akagi (1927)
USS Lexington (1927)
Kaga (1928)
HMS Glorious (1930)
Hiryu (1937)
USS Yorktown (1937)
USS Enterprise (1938)
HMS Ark Royal (1938)
USS Wasp (1940)
CAM and MAC Ships (1941)
HMS Audacity (1941)
Shokaku (1941)
HMS Indomitable (1941)
USS Sangamon (1942)
Jun’yo (1942)
USS Independence (1943)
USS Princeton (1943)
USS Lexington (1943)
USS Intrepid (1943)
USS Wasp (1943)
Taiho (1944)
Shinano (1944)
USS Midway (1945)

CARRIERS SINCE 1945
HMS Eagle (1951)
USS Forrestal (1955)
HMS Hermes/INS Viraat (1959)
Clemenceau (1960)
USS Enterprise (1961)
HMS Fearless (1965)
Veinticinco de Mayo (1969)
USS Nimitz (1975)
Kiev (1975)
USS Tarawa (1976)
Ivan Rogov (1978)
HMS Invincible (1980)
USS Carl Vinson (1982)
Giuseppi Garibaldi (1985)
Principe de Asturias (1988)
Admiral Kuznetsov (1995)
HMS Ocean (1998)
Charles de Gaulle (2001)
USS Ronald R. Reagan (2003)
Mistral (2006)
Liaoning (2012)
HMAS Canberra (2014)
Izumo (2015)
HMS Queen Elizabeth (2017)
USS Gerald R. Ford (2017)
INS Vikrant (2018)

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