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Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Jupiter: USS Jupiter (AC-3) served as a collier from 1913 to 1920 and was converted into the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier, being renamed USS Langley on 21 April 1920 and being recommissioned as an aircraft carrier in 1922. USS Jupiter (AK-43), a cargo ship commissioned 22 August 1942 ...
The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1] It was soon followed by the other pre-World War II classes: the Lexington class; USS Ranger, the first U.S. purpose-built carrier; theYorktown class, and USS Wasp. [2]
USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship.
USS Jupiter (AC-3) L. ... USS Proteus (AC-9) This page was last edited on 9 March 2014, at 10:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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United States Navy colliers were ships that carried coal to ships with coal-fired boilers and steam engines.. Colliers were in service as such from roughly the American Civil War through World War I, and some carried other cargoes through World War II.