List of sunken aircraft carriers

[Admiral Beez]

Just some interesting trivia....

List of sunken aircraft carriers - Wikipedia

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Japan lost 22 carriers
USA 15 carriers
Britain 8 carriers

 

[GrauGeist]

Good list, which also shows the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Army (they had submarines, too), however, during the course of the war, the USN only lost twelve carriers.

Two of the WWII era carriers on the list: Saratoga (CV-3) and Independence (CVL-22), survived the war and were sunk during atomic bomb tests.

 

[R Leonard]

Also USS Langley (AV-3) was not an aircraft carrier; the ship had been converted from an aircraft carrier to a seaplane tender in 1937. Langley could neither launch nor recover carrier aircraft thereafter. And all those P-40s being carried when the ship was sunk had to be loaded and unloaded at pier-side or by lighter, they could not be launched.

 

[EwenS]

Seaplane Carrier AV-3 Langley on 11 Feb 1942 shortly before her loss later that month.

https://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/09020365.jpg

 

[Admiral Beez]

I gave a too-quick scan to omit non-combat losses. Too bad the carrier list doesn't have filter for combat losses, like the below battleship list.

List of sunken battleships - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Safest non-polar ocean to be on a battleship appears to be the Indian Ocean. Though they took some knocks there, so perhaps the South Atlantic.

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Interesting read.


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