Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.