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Snickers
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posted 02-19- 09:28 PM
   
I am trying to find data for the USS Langley (a PBY tender) any hints as to sources.....?
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Nat
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posted 02-19- 09:37 PM
this is a good starting place, I'm checking it as I write this, so I can't say it's there, but it is a good link  http://www.battleship.org/html/Articles/Features/Scale.htm IP: Logged |
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posted 02-19- 09:46 PM
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/01.htm
CV-1 USS LANGLEY
CLASS - LANGLEY
Displacement 11,050 Tons, Dimensions, 542' (oa) x 65' 5" x 24' (Max)
Armament 4 x 5"/51, 36 Aircraft
Armor, None.
Machinery, 7,152 SHP; G. E. Turbines With Electric Drive, 2 screws
Speed, 15 Knots, Crew 411. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Operational and Building Data
Laid down 18 October 1911 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Launched 14 August 1912;
Commissioned USS Jupiter (Collier No. 3), 7 April 1913; Decommissioned 24 March 1920
for conversion to an Aircraft Carrier at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA;
Recommissioned USS Langley (CV-1), 20 March 1922;
Modified and Reclassified a Seaplane Tender USS Langely (AV-3), 11 April
FATE 1937; Lost to enemy action, 27 February 1942, 75 miles south of Tjilatjap, Java
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