Not a single one of the 105 aircraft carriers built for the U.S. Navy was offered for sale, nor were any of the 23 battleships that saw service in WWII sold or transferred to another nation.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

During a private White House ceremony Jan. 3, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro introduced two future Gerald R. Ford-class of aircraft carriers that will bear the names USS William J.