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	USS Langley (CVL-27) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The USS Langley (CVL-27) was an 11,000-ton Independence-class aircraft carrier that served the United States Navy from 1943 - 1964.
		The Langley was originally ordered as the light cruiser Fargo (CL-85), but by the time her keel was laid in April 1942, she had been redesigned as an aircraft carrier, using the original cruiser hull and machinery.
		Langley continued her war role through the rest of 1944, participating in the Palaus Operation, raids on the Philippines, Formosa and the Ryukyus, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USS_Langley_%28CVL-27%29 (371 words)

	USS Langley (CV-1) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3) in 1920.
		On 11 April 1920, her name was changed to Langley in honor of Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American astronomer, physicist, aeronautics pioneer and aircraft engineer, and she was given hull classification symbol CV-1.
		In 1924 Langley participated in more maneuvers and exhibitions, and spent the summer at Norfolk for repairs and alterations, she departed for the west coast late in the year and arrived San Diego, California, on 29 November to join the Pacific Battle Fleet.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USS_Langley_%28CV-1%29 (946 words)

	USS Langley (CV-1) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3) in 1920.
		On 11 April 1920, her name was changed to Langley in honor of Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American astronomer, physicist, aeronautics pioneer and aircraft engineer, and she was given hull classification symbol CV-1.
		In 1924 Langley participated in more maneuvers and exhibitions, and spent the summer at Norfolk for repairs and alterations, she departed for the west coast late in the year and arrived San Diego, California, on 29 November to join the Pacific Battle Fleet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Langley_(CV-1) (963 words)

	LANGLEY (AC-3/CV-1)
		In 1924 Langley participated in more maneuvers and exhibitions, and spent the summer at Norfolk for repairs and alterations, she departed for the west coast late in the year and arrived San Diego 29 November to join the Pacific Battle Fleet.
		Langley completed conversion 26 February 1937 and was reclassified AV-3 on 11 April she was assigned to Aircraft Scouting Force and commenced her tending operations out of Seattle, Sitka, Pearl Harbor, and San Diego.
		Unable to negotiate the narrow mouth of Tjilatjap Harbor, Langley went dead in the water as inrushing water flooded her main motors.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/auxil/ac3.htm (850 words)

	Aircraft Carrier Photo Index: USS LANGLEY (CVL-27)
		USS Langley taking heavy seas during operations against the Japanese in the Philippines while acting as part of screen for Task Force Group 38.3.
		USS Langley (CVL-27) underway with a task force in the Pacific, 27 March 1945.
		USS Langley (CVL 27) undergoes reactivation at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, in January 1951.
	www.navsource.org /archives/02/27.htm (1359 words)

	USS Langley (CV-1) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		With Langley underway nine days later, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Courcelles Chevalier made the first landing in an.
		She departed, Australia, 22 February in convoy, and left the convoy five days later to deliver 32 Curtiss P-40s to Tjilatjap, Java.
		Unable to negotiate the narrow mouth of, Langley went dead in the water as inrushing water flooded her engine room.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/USS_Langley_(CV-1) (997 words)

	USS Langley CV-1
		Her name w as changed to Langley 21 April 1920; she was classified CV-1 and commissioned 20 March 1922, Comdr.
		Though this was not the first time an airplane had taken oft from a ship, and though Langley was not the first ship with an installed flight deck this one launching was of monumental importance to the modern U.S. Navy.
		Langley completed conversion 26 February 1937 and was reclassified AV-3 on 21 April.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/Langely.html (883 words)

	USS Langley (CVL-27) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Langley (CVL-27), originally named Fargo (CL-85), was laid down as Crown Point (CV-27) by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J., 11 April 1942; renamed Langley 13 November 1942; launched 22 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
		Langley's aircraft had assisted in the destruction of the carriers Zuiho and Zuikaku, the latter being the only remaining carrier of the six that had participated in the Pearl Harbor attack.
		During November, Langley was lending her support to the Philippine landings and striking the Manila Bay area, Japanese reinforcement convoys, and Luzon airfields in the Cape Engano area.
	www.worldwar2database.com /~ironwomn/langley.html (946 words)

	Birth of Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This was a curious reactions because Langley's inventive aircraft launching apparatus was a steam catapult built over a houseboat, a device quite similar in function to the launching equipment later used on Navy cruisers.
		USS Langley became the first aircraft carrier in the US Naval history, with conversion construction started in 1919 and completed in 1922.
		Snubbed, the brothers grew to hate Langley and much of the government establishment to such an extent that after their deaths, their original plane was willed to a museum in Europe rather than the more appropriate Smithsonian where Langley was its director.
	wgregg.home.cyberverse.com /webdoc1/birth_of_the_carriers.html (1555 words)

	USS Langley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Two United States Navy ships have borne the name Langley, after the American scientific pioneer Samuel Langley.
		The first Langley (CV-1) was the first aircraft carrier of the Navy, converted from the collier Jupiter in 1922, and sunk in February 1942 by the Japanese.
		The second Langley (CVL-27) was a light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, active in World War II, and transferred to France in 1951.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Langley (132 words)

	History of Ships and Navies/USS Langley
		Her namew as changed to Langley 21 April 1920; she was classied CV-1 and commissioned20 March 1922, Comdr.
		Though this was not the first timean airplane had taken oft from a ship, and though Langley was not the firstship with an installed flight deck this one launching was of monumentalimportance to the modern U.S. Navy.
		She was assigned to Aircraft Scoutin,g Force and commencedher tending operations out of Seattle, Sitka, Pearl Harbor, and San Diego.She departed for a brief deployment with the Atlantic Fleet from 1 Februaryto 10 July 1939, and then steamed to assume her duties with the Pacificfleet at Manila arriving 24 September.
	www.multied.com /navy/Langley.html (820 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Samuel P. Langley
		In this book, Langley methodically explored the measurement of atmospheric properties and the aerodynamic force on flat plates, the effect of aspect ratio on lift, propeller design, the movement in center of pressure as it relates to stabilty and control, and the power required for flight.
		By this point, Langley was now secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, where he began a new series of experiments with small powered models.
		Perhaps more importantly, Langley firmly established the United States as a leader in aerodynamic research and provided much of the impetus to construct wind tunnels and other aeronautical laboratories that became crucial to maintaining American involvement in the new science.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/history/q0004.shtml (825 words)

	Squadron History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The USS AROOSTOOK was the flagship and tender for the Air Squadrons.
		The collier USS JUPITER was converted to the carrier USS LANGLEY (CV-1), the first aircraft carrier operated by the United States Navy.
		USS LANGLEY was commissioned at Norfolk on 20 March 1922.
	www.lemoore.navy.mil /vfa-2/history.html (5477 words)

	Untitled
		But it wasn't until the Navy opted to convert the USS Jupiter --- later renamed the USS Langley (CV-1) --- to the Navy's first aircraft carrier that the Navy committed itself to launching and recovering airplanes at sea.
		The Langley was recommissioned on March 20, 1922.
		The USS Ranger (CV-4), which was commissioned June 4, 1934, was the Navy's first ship designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier.
	www.examiner.net /ussharrytruman/history.html (1050 words)

	Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Once the facelift was complete, the vessel was christened USS Langley (CV 1), the Navy’s first aircraft carrier.
		VFA-2 (then known as VF-2) knew Langley was to be homeported in San Diego, and though they didn’t know what their role would be on the Navy’s newest experiment, they trained as if they were to be a part of it.
		For the “Bounty Hunters,” yesterday’s Vought biplanes and the steam-powered Langley have progressed to today’s Super Hornets and the nuclear-powered Abraham Lincoln.
	www.cvn72.navy.mil /pao/news/langley.html (507 words)

	The USS S-43 - Gallant Lady of the Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		From 26 May to 1 June, USS S-43 ran submerged during the day to clear the area and lay to at night to charge her batteries.
		There, into the spring, USS S-43 proceeded to Guantanamo Bay in early April; then retraced her route; transited the Panama Canal; and, on the 26th, arrived at San Diego, where she operated for the West Coast Sound School through the summer.
		In late September, USS S-43 shifted to San Francisco, California...where she was decommissioned on 10 October 1945.
	thesaltysailor.com /s-boats/s43.htm (1440 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		USS Lexington (CV 2) was at sea about 425 miles southeast of Midway toward which she was headed to deliver a Marine Scout Bombing Squadron.
		USS Enterprise (CV 6) was also at sea, about 200 miles west of Pearl Harbor, returning from Wake Island where she had delivered a Marine Fighter Squadron.
		In the ensuing battle, the four large Japanese carriers were sunk, carrying with them 258 planes along with a high percentage of Japan's most highly trained and battle-experienced carrier pilots, a blow to Japan from which she could not recover.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/carriers/cv-hist2.html (838 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Langley (CV-1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The U.S. Navy's first turboelectric ship, USS Jupiter (AC-3), was commissioned as a fleet collier shortly before World War I. After brief duty in the Pacific during the Vera Cruz crisis, she became the first ship to transit the Panama Canal from west to east, on Columbus Day, 1914.
		As rebuilt, Langley had a flush flight deck on top of an open trusswork erected on her upper deck, which was used for aircraft maintenance and storage.
		After fourteen years as a training ground for naval aviators, by 1936 Langley was too small to accommodate the new generation of naval aircraft and she was converted to a seaplane tender, with the forward third of her flight deck removed.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_053900_usslangleycv.htm (412 words)

	Commercial Prints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I have positively identified the lower photo as one taken while the LANGLEY was docked at the carrier pier at North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego, CA, possibly in 1925.
		The USS MARYLAND (BB-46) was commissioned in July of 1921, so during the 1920s you can imagine it was one of the newest and proudest battleships in the fleet.
		USS HOLLAND was the name of the Navy's first modern submarine, but had sunk years before.
	www.employees.org /~redneck/submariner/commercial.htm (621 words)

	Aircraft Carrier Photo Index: USS LANGLEY (CV-1)
		USS Langley (CV-1) at anchor, with an Aeromarine 39-B airplane landing on her flight deck, circa 1922.
		USS Langley (CV-1) barely underway in calm waters, January 1925, location unknown (somewhere in the Pacific), with a Vought VE-7 about to land amidst a flock of birds.
		USS Lexington (CV-2), top; USS Saratoga (CV-3), with her distinctive funnel stripe; and USS Langley (CV-1), accross the pier from Saratoga.
	www.navsource.org /archives/02/01.htm (1373 words)

	The 'Shock Waves' Painting and History
		VF-2 was assigned to the USS Ranger (CV-61), and deployed to the Indian Ocean, to support the efforts during the Iran hostage crisis.
		In 1993, the USS Ranger was decommissioned, and VF-2 was one of three west coast squadrons chosen to upgrade to the new F-14D Super Tomcat.
		The first USS Ranger was built at Portsmouth, N.H. in 1777, with Captain John Paul Jones as the Commanding officer of this eighteen gun Continental frigate.
	www.highironillustrations.com /aviation/shockwave_1.html (571 words)

	Evan Fenn - Finding the Monaghan's Sole Living Survivor
		Six men from the USS Monaghan, a third destroyer that had capsized, still drifted in the sea.
		They were discovered by the USS Brown and became the Monaghan's only survivors.
		USS Langley (CVL -28) on a roll to starboard.
	www.patriotwatch.com /Evan_Fenn.htm (1469 words)

	Langley
		Langley was the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier.
		While carrying Army fighters to the Netherlands East Indies on 27 February 1942, Langley was attacked by three waves of Japanese aircraft.
		The situation hopeless, Langley was abandoned and escorting destroyers scuttled her with gunfire and torpedoes, another loss in the Battle of Java Sea.
	www.steelnavy.com /Langley.htm (186 words)

	Air Group 4 - Book Reviews
		VF-4 (the "Red Rippers") flew the Hellcat from the USS Bunker Hill and the USS Essex, often using the plane as a fighter-bomber.
		The Tophatters began on the USS Langley and, as VB-4, served on the USS Ranger, USS Bunker Hill, and USS Essex during WWII.
		USS RANGER: The Navy´s First Flattop from Keel to Mast by Robert J. Cressman is an excellent comprehensive history of the USS Ranger.
	www.airgroup4.com /books.htm (555 words)

	Happy anniversary: Remembering the first carrier flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Though CV-1 Langley was the first U.S. carrier, Griffin's Vought VE7SF was by no means the first plane to fly from the deck of a Navy ship.
		In January 1920, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels allocated $500,000 for the conversion of the collier USS Jupiter to CV-1, USS Langley.
		Langley was commissioned in Norfolk, Va., on March 20, 1922.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/tester/5_42/national_news/2396-1.html (948 words)

	USS Langley (CV-1, AV-3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She was bombed by Japanese Naval land attack planes, 75 miles south of Tjilatjap and 16 crewmembers were killed.
		Irreparably damaged, the Langley was scuttled by destroyer Whipple (DD-217).
		Later, U.S. freighter Sea Witch delivers 27 crated USAAF P-40s to Tjilatjap, Java, but the planes will be destroyed on the docks to deny their use by the victors.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /ships/usn/langley.html (191 words)

	SHIP
		John's source for the photograph of USS Houston (at anchor in Darwin) was the wife of the late Ron Beard who saw action while a member of HMAS Warrego’s No. 1 forward gun during the aborted convoy to Koepang and the Darwin air raid.
		The way I see it, the USS Peary section is the best means I have of ever getting that note James Pike wrote to his next-of-kin!It would make a such a lovely story if it can be done.
		USS Houston steamed to her death in a desperate attack with HMAS Perth against an entire Japanese Battle Fleet.
	www.usshouston.org /ship.htm (771 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Langley (CV 1)
		Though her career as a carrier had ended, her well-trained pilots proved invaluable to the next two carriers, USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3).
		Early in the morning 27 February 1942, Langley rendezvoused with her antisubmarine screen, destroyers USS Whipple (DD-217) and USS Edsall (DD-219).
		Unable to negotiate the narrow mouth of Tjilatjap Harbor, Langley went dead in the water as in-rushing water flooded her main motors.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv01-langley/cv01-langley.html (902 words)

	Macpuzl - History Page 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I had been told that this was an image of USS Langley, our first aircraft carrier.
		The Langley had no island superstructure, and that of Eagle is quite distinctive.
		By the time the war started, the Langley, which was originally built as a collier, had been converted from an aircraft carrier into a seaplane tender.
	www.west.net /~macpuzl/hist04.html (157 words)

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