USS Cabot (CVL-28)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Cabot.

USS Cabot (July 1945)
History
United States
NameCabot
NamesakeJohn Cabot
BuilderNew York Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down16 March 1942
Launched4 April 1943
Sponsored byMrs. A. C. Read
Commissioned24 July 1943
Decommissioned11 February 1947
Recommissioned27 October 1948
Decommissioned21 January 1955
Stricken1 August 1972
IdentificationHull number: CVL-28
Fate
  • Loaned to Spanish Navy 30 August 1967[1]
  • Served as Dédalo 1967–1989
  • Sold to Spain 1972
  • Stricken by Spanish Navy 1989
  • Scrapped 2002
General characteristics
Class and typeIndependence-class aircraft carrier
Displacement11,000 tons (standard)
Length622.5 ft (189.7 m)
Beam
  • 71.5 ft (21.8 m) (waterline)
  • 109 ft 2 in (33.27 m) (overall)
Draft26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement1,569 officers and men
Armament26 × Bofors 40 mm guns
Aircraft carried35 aircraft
USS Cabot
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana (1990–1997)
Brownsville, Texas (1997–2001)
NRHP reference No.90000334[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP21 June 1990
Designated NHL21 June 1990
Removed from NRHP7 August 2001
Delisted NHL7 August 2001

USS Cabot (CVL-28/AVT-3) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, the second ship to carry the name, after the explorer John Cabot. Cabot was commissioned in 1943 and served until 1947. She was recommissioned as a training carrier from 1948 to 1955. From 1967 to 1989, she served in Spain as Dédalo. After attempts to preserve her failed, she was scrapped in 2002.

USS Cabot was laid down as Wilmington (CL-79), a Cleveland-class light cruiser, redesignated CV-28 on 2 June 1942, renamed Cabot on 23 June 1942 and converted while building. She was launched on 4 April 1943 by New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey; sponsored by Mrs. A. C. Read. She was reclassified CVL-28 on 15 July 1943 and commissioned on 24 July 1943, with Captain Malcolm Francis Schoeffel in command.

  1. ^ Gardiner, Robert, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1982, Part One: The Western Powers, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87021-918-9, p. 111.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.