Invincible and Pensacola as politically relabeled ships

Were the Invincible and Pensacola classes alike as ships reclassified through politics?

To an extent, but Invincible's transformation also reflected changing operational reality, while Pensacola's was more directly political.

The Invincible and Pensacola classes both illustrate how political language changes a warship's formal category. Their cases still differ. Pensacola's reclassification was primarily a direct political and treaty matter. Invincible began under political constraints but was then overtaken by changing operational reality, becoming an aircraft carrier in function as the world around the class changed.