Wrong ship; check 4.
Did you read the first paragraph in my post right underneath the photo of the 1942 commissioned USS Essex?
"The fourth Essex (CV-9) was launched 31 July 1942 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. sponsored by Mrs. Artemus L. Gates, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; and commissioned 31 December 1942, Captain D. B. Duncan command ing. She was reclassified (CVA-9) on 1 October 1952, and (CVS-9) on 8 March 1960. "
If you read it, are you then saying that the US Navy assigns the same name to multiple ships all commissioned and in use at the same time?