USS Cordova (CVE-39) (originally AVG-39 then later ACV-39) was an escort carrier launched 27 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. A. E. Mitchell.

Reclassified CVE-39 on 15 July 1943, Cordova was transferred to the Royal Navy on 25 August 1943, as HMS Khedive (D62) Khedive served as the command ship for the Allied landings in southern France, in August 1944.

[1] From April to August 1945, she was with the East Indies Fleet as part of the 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron.

Khedive was to take part in the invasion of Singapore in September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.

These ships were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all the preceding American built escort carriers.