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USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship , Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to be designed and built from the keel up as a carrier.
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1]
The first escort carrier, USS Long Island, was converted from a freighter. [39] A shortage of merchant ship hulls caused four escort carriers—USS Sangamon, USS Suwanee, USS Chenango, and USS Santee—to be built on oil tanker hulls. [39] In total, 78 escort carriers were built and launched from June 1941 to April 1945. [39]
Squadrons were redesignated to conform with the hull number of the Aircraft Carrier to which they were assigned: [19] CV 2, CV 3, CV 4 and CV 5 (USS Yorktown (CV-5) was commissioned on 30 Sep 1937). USS Langley (CV 1) had ceased operating as an Aircraft Carrier by October 1936 and had been converted to a seaplane tender Ship Named Air Groups [h ...
Aircraft carriers (AV, CV, CVL and CVA), the Navy's first carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), was converted from a collier, while carriers USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3) were started as battlecruisers but were also converted to carriers due to the Washington Naval Treaty. USS Ranger (CV-4) was the first purpose-made carrier. Like ...
ISL has also dismantled the former USS Ranger (CV-61), which arrived here in July 2015, and the former USS Independence (CV-62), which came in June 2017. ISL received the former USS Kitty Hawk (CV ...
USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9) was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth ...
USS Constellation (CVA-64/CV-64) was a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the "new constellation of ...