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To that very nice list I'll mention a few other tidbits of info.
The designation for aircraft carrier would would think, should be CA (Carrier, Aviation) but CA was also used for Cruiser, Heavy (or Cruiser, Armored), so they simply took the 2nd letter of the word aviation and there you have it!
Also, the Alaska-class cruisers are usually referred to as battlecruisers but they did not carry the CC designator like the cancelled Lexington-class battlecruisers. However they were far too large to be considered 'heavy cruisers' (CA) and so they were called just that: 'Large Cruisers' or CB.
To further muck up the waters, when the Soviet Kirov-class cruisers came out, they were often referred to informally as 'BCGNs' or Battle Cruiser Guided-Missile Nuclear Powered.
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