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USS Independence (CVL-22) (also CV-22) was a United States Navy light aircraft carrier. The lead ship of her class, she served during World War II. Converted from the hull of a Cleveland-class light cruiser, she was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation and commissioned in January 1943. She took part in the attacks on Rabaul and Tarawa ...
USS Independence (CVL-22) was attacked on 20 November 1943 by a group of aircraft low on the water. Six were shot down, but the aircraft launched at least five torpedoes, one of which hit the carrier's starboard quarter.
Birmingham attempts to fight fires aboard Princeton during Battle of Leyte Gulf. Completed in the course of 1943, and coming into service with the first eight of the Essex-class carriers, the nine Independence-class ships made up a vital component of the Fast Carrier Task Force, which carried the Navy's offensive through the central and western Pacific from November 1943 through August 1945.
USS Cowpens (CVL-25) USS Independence (CVL-22) USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) IJN Sortie To Eniwetok In Response to USN Raids on Wake (17–26 October 1943) No engagements IJN Combined Fleet (Koga): IJN Shōkaku (CV) IJN Zuikaku (CV) IJN Zuihō (CVL) IJN Ferry Aircraft to Reinforce Rabaul (30 Oct – 13 November 1943) Operation RO IJN: IJN Shōkaku (CV)
He has participated in over 100 shipwreck investigations worldwide, including notable sites such as the RMS Titanic, USS Independence (CVL-22), USS Conestoga (AT-54), USS Monitor, USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Nevada (BB-36), Sub Marine Explorer, the buried Gold Rush ships of San Francisco, the atomic bomb test fleet at Bikini Atoll, the slave ship ...
Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) Santa Fe CL-60 7 June 1941 10 June 1942 24 November 1942 29 October 1946 Struck 1 March 1959; Sold for scrap, 9 November 1959 Tallahassee CL-61 2 June 1941 — — — Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23) Birmingham CL-62
The ship was laid down as the Cleveland-class light cruiser Tallahassee (CL-61) by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, 2 June 1941.She was reclassified as the Independence-class light aircraft carrier CV-23 on 16 February 1942, renamed Princeton 31 March 1942, launched 18 October 1942, sponsored by Margaret Dodds (wife of Princeton University president Harold Dodds), and ...
USS Independence (CVL-22), a light aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946, after which she was sunk for weapons testing HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) , a light aircraft carrier in service with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1957 to 1970, after which she was sold for scrap