Is there an ultimate size in ocean going warships?

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The very first U.S. carrier was the Langley (CV-1)

Next was the Lexington, Saratoga, Ranger and then Yorktown.

The Enterprise was sixth one built.

The names of these carriers have been used on newer carriers over the years.

Langley: CV-1, CVL-27
Lexington: CV-2, CV-16
Sararoga: CV-3, CV-16
Ranger: CV-4, CV-61
Yorktown: CV-5, CV-10
Enterprise: CV-6, CV-65

Its been a while though, for some of those names.

For us, we no longer use HMAS Australia. Im unsure why the use of that name was discontinued, though a i suspect losing a ship named after a country might be a bit of an image problem