Are there any unaltered WW2 aircraft carriers still around

I'm talking about carriers from WW2 that were not modified for jets or anything. But still look like they did during WW2 and are still around, possibly as museums.

Cause according to google,it seems any aircraft carriers that were active in/around WW2 that are museums now like the Intrepid,Hornet, or Midway are all ships that were later converted for jets.

That's a negative.

All aircraft carriers were altered, post WWII. The introduction of jet aircraft into the Navy/Marine Corps inventory necessitated the alteration of the flight decks to include steam-powered catapults, stronger arresting gear, heavier flight decks, and new handling facilities. This conversion was known as SCB-27.

Post-war, the majority of the remaining Essex class carriers, including the currently preserved museum ships USS Yorktown, USS Lexington, USS Hornet and USS Intrepid, were all modified from their flight decks (angled) downwards to their engines and hangar bays. Some were preserved as straight-deck flattops, mostly for helo-operations, anti-submarine warfare and recovery efforts (for the Gemini, Mercury, Apollo NASA programs).

I think the carriers of the Essex class were some of the most beautiful capital ships to have ever sailed. They were the very image of raw, mastered power and American military engineering might.

EDIT: Negative Skipper, the Intrepid was refitted with an angled flight deck in 1956.

http://www.aerialphotosofnj.ne…

Looks pretty angled to me, Warbird...

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Nope, none.

The only aircraft carriers from WWII to survive much longer were the US Essex class and Midway class, and the British Centaur, Majestic, and Colossus class carriers.

Not all of these were modified for jets (the Franklin and Bunker Hill of the Essex class were not modified at all) and retained straight decks for operating piston powered aircraft or helicopters.