American ship designs in the Mediterranean war

Would contemporary US ships have performed better if substituted for British ships in Mediterranean combat?

Surface combatants might perform about the same, but unarmored American carriers would be more vulnerable to the punishment British carriers absorbed.

Many American battleships and cruisers would produce broadly comparable results, depending on the exact substitutions. Carrier survival is the clearest divergence. American flight decks and hangars were less able to withstand concentrated air attack. The Mediterranean threat environment would expose that difference quickly.