Title: USS Jupiter Description: October 16, 1913, Mare Island, California: USS Jupiter (AC-3) at sea and being moved by tugboats; the 19,360-ton collier USS Jupiter (AC-3) was converted in 1920 to the first United States aircraft carrier, and renamed the USS Langley, after American aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley; its sister ships, the collier USS Cyclops (AC-4), disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle area on March 4, 1918, with a loss of 306 passengers and crew, the single largest loss of life in U.S. naval history, other than that resulting from combat, and the collier USS Proteus (AC-9), vanished on November 23, 1941 with a complement of 158, and the collier USS Nereus (AC-10) vanished on December 10, 1941 with a complement of 236, both in the same Bermuda Triangle area; Category: World War II Keywords: USS Jupiter (AC-3), aircraft, aircraft carriers, airplanes, Bermuda Triangle, carriers, colliers, fighter planes, Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834-February 27, 1906), planes, ship conversions, ships, U.S. Navy, USS Cyclops (AC-4), USS Langley (CV-1), USS Nereus (AC-10), USS Proteus (AC-9), vessels, warships Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1980 x 1056 (2.09 MPixels) (1.88) Print Size: 16.8 x 8.9 cm; 6.6 x 3.5 inches File Size: 5.99 MB (6,281,314 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010604 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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