USS Jupiter, a 19,360-ton collier (originally classified as a "Fuel Ship") built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, was commissioned in April 1913. The Navy's first surface ship propelled by electric motors, she was an engineering prototype for the turbo-electric propulsion system widely used in Navy capital ships built during the later "Teens" and the 1920s. Jupiter provided transportation and coal carrying services for the Pacific fleet until October 1914, when she transited the Panama Canal to begin operations in the Atlantic. During the First World War, she carried cargo to Europe and supplied coal to combat and logistics forces on both sides of the Atlantic. Jupiter decommissioned in March 1920 to began conversion to an aircraft carrier. Renamed Langley in April 1920 and designated CV-1 when the Navy implemented its hull number system in July 1920, she recommissioned two years later as the first ship in the Navy's seagoing air fleet.
This page features views concerning USS Jupiter (Fuel Ship # 3).
For views of this ship after her conversion to an aircraft
carrier, see:
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The following photographs show Jupiter while she was under construction:
Additional image: Photo # NH 106696, a view of USS Michigan (Battleship # 27) coaling, shows a collier in the background that is either USS Jupiter or her sister, USS Neptune (Fuel Ship # 8).
For views of this ship after her conversion to an aircraft
carrier, see:
NOTES:
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Page made 6 February 2000
New image added and text updated 18 February 2009