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- Maritime History: CV1 — USS Langley was a Trailblazer Maritime Reporter, Dec 2021 #14
While the December 2021 edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News examines 'Great Ships' delivered this calendar year, Edward Lundquist takes a look back into U.S. Navy history and America's first aircraft carrier —CV 1, the USS Langley.
Most people think of USS Langley as America’s first aircraft carrier — CV 1. While that’s true, and being the first flattop in the fleet is an honorable distinction, Langley began life as a collier — USS Jupiter, which itself was a relatively new concept of delivering fuel to the afloat forces where they need it.
Today, the U.S. Navy has oilers and stores ships that can refuel and replenish ships while they are at sea, and a sophisticated logistics system that can procure gas and groceries wherever the ships call. But that wasn’t the case in the early 20th century. The sailing ships didn’t need fuel, but the coal-fired steam-powered ships did, and it wasn’t available everywhere. Having ships dedicated to carrying coal to supply the fleet was revolutionary.
Colliers appeared during the Civil War when coal fired ships became common, and continued through World War I. While some served later, they were used more for their cargo-carrying capacity after World War I. Most were converted from merchant service, but Jupiter and her sisters were purpose built by the Navy.
USS Jupiter wasn’t the first collier. She was originally known as Fuel Ship No. 3, or Fleet Collier No. 3, and eventually AC 3. She was part of a class of four Proteus-class colliers built for the U.S. Navy, but was singled out for a new kind of electric drive. USS Jupiter and USS Cyclops were actually slightly larger than USS Proteus and USS Nereus, and there were differences in propulsion systems and coal handling equipment.
Her keel was laid down at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California in 1911. She was launched on Aug. 14, 1912, and commissioned on 7 April 7, 1913. She was unique in her propulsion system. Her three boilers powered two shafts through a General Electric turbo-electric transmission to give her a top speed of about 15 knots, and a range of about 3,500 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 12 knots.
Airplanes were showing great promise to provide scouting ahead of the battle force. The Royal Navy was building carriers, and the U.S. wanted into the game. Congress showed some reluctance. But they allowed for a conversion to evaluate and demonstrate airplanes flying off of ships.
As coal gave way to oil as the fuel of choice for the Navy, there were still a lot of coal fired ships, and still a mission for colliers. But the trend to oil was making colliers obsolete. Jupiter was a good candidate for conversion because she had a lot of internal space for stowing aircraft. She was renamed Langley — for Samuel Langley, a pioneer in naval aviation--and underwent a conversion that involved the installation of a flight deck — earning her the nickname of the “Covered Wagon,” and a reconfiguration of her stack arrangement.
Her conversion to an aircraft carrier was basically an experiment. Langley was never going to be fast enough to keep up with the fleet. The Washington Treaty came about in 1922, and led to the two battle cruisers that were redesigned and built as aircraft carriers, USS Lexington and Saratoga, were real combatants.
Another collier was planned for a conversion; however, it became clear that the larger, faster ships would be more useful. But Langley showed it could be done.
Langley had an elevator to take aircraft from the hangar deck to the flight deck, and arresting gear, albeit primitive. During her career, Langley was used to test catapult launching and night landings, blind landings and cold-weather operations.
Langley was exempt from the treaty limitations because she was already in existence, and was really an experimental ship. By the time World War II arrived, U.S. aircraft carrier tonnage was limited by law — the Vinson-Trammell Act of 1924 — and so she was converted again. This time to a seaplane tender, with half of her flight deck removed. Langley completed her conversion on February 26, 1937, and was assigned hull number AV-3 soon after.
But she did serve during World War II. As a seaplane tender, she was frequently used to ferry aircraft. She was serving in this role as part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) on February 27, 1942, carrying 38 Army Air Force Curtis P-40 Warhawk fighters to Tjilatjap in Indonesia, when she was attacked by 16 Japanese bombers. She was severely damaged and had to be scuttled by gunfire and torpedoes from her escorts. Destroyers USS Whipple and USS Edsall picked up survivors, then subsequently transferred those survivors to oiler USS Pecos. Pecos, herself, was lost when the oiler was attacked by Japanese aircraft as the oiler made her way to Australia.
Although she didn’t have wartime service as a carrier, she did train the first generations of carrier pilots and informed the Navy of what was possible, and would soon become a mainstay of the U.S. fleet.

An Aeromarine 39-B airplane approaches the flight deck of USS Langley (CV-1) during landing practice, Oct. 19, 1922. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photographic Collection. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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- Denmark's Promising Future Maritime Reporter, Feb 2015 #48
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- Profiles in Maritime Training: Martyn Thomas, Chief of Staff, Stream Marine Training Ltd. (SMT) Maritime Reporter, May 2020 #18
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- LNG is a Crystal Clear Alternative Maritime Reporter, Jan 2014 #40
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December 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14
Eye on the Navy Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. USS Langley: A Trailblazer By Edward Lundquist ost people think of USS Langley as America’s from merchant service, but Jupiter and her sisters were pur- ? rst aircraft carrier—CV 1. While that’s true, pose built by the Navy. and being the ? rst
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November 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 66
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May 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29
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May 2018 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 16
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May 2012 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36
other fuel economies).The EEDI is determined using a fixed formula and shows the CO2 emissions of a cargo vessel in grams per ton trans- Hapag-Lloyd: A Trailblazer for the New EEDI Voluntary commitment for entire fleet; Up to 27% reduction in CO2 emissions (Photo: Hapag-Lloyd)One of Hapag-Lloyd?s largest ships
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160 billion barrels of oil, the Arctic holds plenty of promise but still equal (if not more) amounts of peril. by Greg Trauthwein 36ENVIRONMENT: AN EEDI TRAILBLAZER Hapag Lloyd voluntarily commits its fleet; reduces emissions 27%.38ENVIRONMENT: WHAT?S ON THE ROAD AHEAD? An environmental roadmap for an energy
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June 2011 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 53
underwater dis- plays.” Marport Awarded Sonar Contract By General Dynamics Canada Marport Deep Sea Technologies won a contract to manufacture the TrailBlazer Sonar for defense con- tractor General Dynamics Canada. The work will be carried out by Marport facilities in Ottawa and Cornwall, Ontario.
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June 2011 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 51
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Zimmermann of Siemens Wind Power in kicking off. "20 to 25 per cent of the Siemens installations are to be erected offshore." Siemens is one of the trailblazers for ocean-based wind energy. As early as 1991, the company, then still operating under the name Bonus Energy A/S, installed its fi rst ocean units
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