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Note: Deleted last paragraph, which referred to USS Oriskany as a "jeep carrier" and which contained information copied from the Wikipedia article on said vessel. USS Oriskany (CV-34) was an Essex-class fleet carrier. "Jeep carrier" is a term generally used to refer to escort aircraft carriers of WW II vintage. Escort carriers, as a general rule, were conversions of merchant vessels or purpose built vessels built on a merchant vessel plan. In all cases, escort carriers were slow and not capable of keeping up with a battle fleet. Fleet carriers, by contrast, were fast, heavily armed vessels designed to steam with the battle fleet and, later, to form the core of a surface task force. In either event, neither Essex class carriers, nor "jeep carriers" were "light aircraft carriers" as that term is used in this article.

For similar reasons, deleted reference to light carriers as "jeep carriers" in first paragraph.

Finally, the statement contained in the second to last paragraph that the Saipan class carriers were converted Baltimore-class cruisers is factually incorrect. The Saipans were conceived as a follow on class to the Independence class light carriers and were not conversions. While the hull of the Saipan-class was based on the Baltimore class design, no Baltimores were converted into carriers.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/usnshtp/cv/cvl48cl.htm

Also, see Wikipedia article on Baltimore-class cruisers, which explains the point further.