# WWII Atlantic aircraft carriers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 4, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-atlantic-aircraft-carriers/436174 "2008-02-04T04:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-atlantic-aircraft-carriers/436174/1 "2008-02-04T04:43:46Z")
_Yorktown_ and _Hornet_ were stationed in the Atlantic, but were transfered to the Pacific in December 1941 and March 1942. _Wasp_ went to the Pacific in June 1942, and _Ranger_ went in July 1944. Which other aircraft carriers operated in the Atlantic Theatre during WWII? ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-atlantic-aircraft-carriers/436174/2 "2008-02-04T04:51:06Z")
For the US. the Atlantic was the bastion where the escort carriers (CVE) operated in the anti sub role. The British kept their carriers in the Atlantic until 1945. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-atlantic-aircraft-carriers/436174/3 "2008-02-04T04:55:08Z")
[QUOTE=audit1] For the US. the Atlantic was the bastion where the escort carriers (CVE) operated in the anti sub role. The British kept their carriers in the Atlantic until 1945. [/QUOTE] I know that the Atlantic had CVEs. Is there a list of the ones that operated in the Atlantic? (And to clarify, I’m just looking for the U.S. carriers.) Were there any _Independence_ Class carriers in the Atlantic? ---
**Author:** ![Harry1945](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Harry1945](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry1945)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-atlantic-aircraft-carriers/436174/4 "2008-02-04T05:09:07Z")
There were nine Independence class carriers in WW II. As far as I know, none of them served in the Atlantic, as there were eight of them involved in the battle for the Philippines. Don’t know for sure where that last one was, though. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-atlantic-aircraft-carriers/436174/5 "2008-02-04T05:21:24Z")
[This site](http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/us_esc2.htm) lists seven _Casablanca_ class carriers operating in the Atlantic: _Mission Bay Guadalcanal Didrickson Bay/Tripoli Wake Island Solomons Tulagi Shamrock Bay_ Wiki mentions some 113 carriers in six classes (not counting six produced by the British), and states that ‘many’ were Lend-Leased to the British. I was hoping there would be a comprehensive list naming all of the carriers operated by the USN in the Atlantic during WWII. (And it would be interesting to know which of the CVEs were Lend-Leased, although that’s not my primary question.) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-atlantic-aircraft-carriers/436174/6 "2008-02-04T06:37:19Z")
I was going to say Ranger, although reviewing her history [on this DANFS page](http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/carriers/) I see that she went to the Pacific in 1944 (although she was never engaged in combat in the Pacific as our smallest surviving fleet carrier). There is a similar DANFS page for [escort carriers](http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/carriers/cve.htm) that one may “walk” through, one by one, looking for Atlantic service. (I am going to be quite surprised if the British leased any carriers other than jeeps. The couple I found (_e.g._, the _Altamaha_, the _Barnes_, and the first _Block Island_ were all shorter than 500’ o.a. with displacements of less than 8,000 tons.)