Anyone know which carrier group this is?
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(8 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

December 3, 2006 at 3:10 am
Hahaha Battleship
December 3, 2006 at 9:01 am
Uh, that’s not a carrier, dude.
December 3, 2006 at 3:10 pm
That’s the USS Essex (LHD 2) which is an amphibious assault ship, not a carrier.
December 4, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Well nice to see we have all these military experts around.
December 4, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Tell me about it Aristoi. At first glance, it’s a “carrier”, but not one in the traditional/name sense. Guess I should try to look at the big pictures a little more before posts, lol. Cool to see that someone even knew the name of the ship too!
December 5, 2006 at 11:18 am
I’m hardly an expert. Google is your friend. And it helps that my husband just happens to be in the US Navy aboard an aircraft carrier.
December 8, 2006 at 11:50 am
Google IS your friend, but what would you google on this? “Bigass ship with a 2 on it?”
December 13, 2006 at 9:24 pm
umm.. it has helicopters on it and control towers…..carrier
January 14, 2007 at 8:18 pm
its a helicopter carrier
February 14, 2007 at 12:55 am
if it was a carrier, it would be the uss lexington cv2, but shes been out of service for a long ass time.
take it from a guy whos been in the navy for a while…its an LHD.
lisa is right though. its the essex. good eye lisa.
February 14, 2007 at 1:47 am
ok lisa is right…
the “bigass ship with the 2 on the side” is the LHD essex.
the ship on the other side and closest to the pier is the USS Vella Gulf the bigger one in the middle is the USS Donnald Cook…im tempted to say that the smaller ship at teh very end is the USS Leyte Gulf. i dont know…im probably wrong on that count. and as for the sub, your guess is as good as mine.
April 10, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Actually, all the smaller ships are Japanese, including the submarine. The largest one is Kongo class- like the US Arleigh Burke class but with a larger gun mount.
November 4, 2011 at 3:34 pm
It’s been a while but here is the info for the photo above.
From top to bottom:
USS Essex (LHD 2)
Shimakaze (DDG 172)
Myoukou (DDG 175)
Hamagiri (DD 155)
Natusio (SS 584)
source of info: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_030228-N-3612M-007_A_busy_day_for_the_White_Beach_Port_Facility_in_Okinawa,_Japan.jpg