USS Lake Champlain (CV/CVA/CVS-39) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The USS Lake Champlain. USS Lake Champlain on exercises in early 1965. Battle of Lake Champlain. CVA-39, 1 October 1952. CVS-39, 1 August 1957. Scrapped, 28 April 1972.