USS Langley (AV 3)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Seaplane tender
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	AV 3
Built by	Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	18 Oct 1911
Launched	14 Aug 1912
Commissioned	7 Apr 1913
Lost	27 Feb 1942
Loss position	8° 58'S, 109° 02'E

History	Displacement: 11500 BRT Length: 542 feet Complement: 468 Armament: 4 5" guns (4x1) Speed: 15 kts Commissioned as collier USS Jupiter (Collier No. 3) on 7 April 1913 Decommissioned on 24 March 1920 for conversion to an aircraft carrier at the Norfolk Navy Yard Recommissioned as USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922 Reclassified as seaplane tender USS Langely (AV-3) on 11 April 1937 USS Langley (Cdr. Robert Pease McConnell) was bombed and sunk by carrier aircraft from the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, and Soryu (all offsite links), some 50 nautical miles south of Tjilatjap, Java, Netherlands East Indies in position 08º58'S, 109º02'E.

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Arthur Cayley Davis, USN	15 Jun 1939	18 Jun 1940
2	Cdr. Frank Dechant Wagner, USN	18 Jun 1940	16 Jul 1941
3	Cdr. Robert Perche McConnell, USN	16 Jul 1941	20 Sep 1941
4	Cdr. Felix Budwell Stump, USN	20 Sep 1941	13 Jan 1942
5	Cdr. Robert Perche McConnell, USN	13 Jan 1942	27 Feb 1942

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