Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index USS Amsterdam was to have been the name of the light cruiser numbered CL-59, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy completed the ship as the light aircraft carrier Independence (CVL-22). The light cruiser Amsterdam (CL-101) was commissioned in 1945 and briefly participated in the final campaign against Japan, then was decomissioned in 1947. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.