The first US aircraft carrier: The U.S.S. Langley

Langley (CV-1) at anchor with an Aeromarine 39-B airplane landing on her flight deck, circa 1922. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph. Catalog #: NH 63545.

 USS Langley (CV-1), 1923
Port view, probably when she visited Washington, D.C., July 1923.

The first US aircraft carrier: The U.S.S. Langley (in Pearl Harbor). 1928

USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3), and also the US Navy’s first turbo-electric-powered ship. Conversion of another collier was planned but canceled when the Washington Naval Treaty required the cancellation of the partially built Lexington-class battlecruisers Lexington and Saratoga, freeing up their hulls for conversion to the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. Langley was named after Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American aviation pioneer. Following another conversion to a seaplane tender, Langley fought in World War II. On 27 February 1942, she was attacked by nine twin-engine Japanese bombers[3] of the Japanese 21st and 23rd Naval Air Flotillas[2] and so badly damaged that she had to be scuttled by her escorts.
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