USS Remembrance

The USS Remembrance was the first aircraft carrier commissioned by the United States Navy. It was originally built as a battleship, but when the hull was a third complete a flight deck was added to it. The Remembrance was commissioned in 1917. It was put on mothballs in 1923 but was reactivated a short time later. It served in a battle with the British Navy in the Irish Sea and in the Pacific War. It also launched an air raid against Charleston, South Carolina in retaliation for the surprise Confederate surprise attacks on US cities and installations preceding Operation Blackbeard. In its time it visited many ports of call in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It was assigned to Pearl Harbor in 1941 and was destroyed by the Japanese there late that year.