Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Wright, the first named for Orville Wright, and second honoring both him and his brother Wilbur.
The first Wright (AV-1) was originally launched in 1920 an airship tender AZ-1, then converted to a seaplane tender and in use as such until 1944, then converted to the headquarters ship AG-79, renamed to San Clemente in 1945, and scrapped in 1946.
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Wright spent the year 1948 engaged in those pilot carrier qualification operations, before she put into the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 26 January 1949 to commence a four-month overhaul.
Wright then sailed from Norfolk on 11 January with a fast carrier task group and reached Gibraltar on the 21st for her first tour of duty with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.
Wright was overhauled at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard from 31 July to 21 November and then conducted refresher training in Cuban waters from 4 January to 16 February 1954.
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