USS Cabot (CVL-28)
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USS Cabot underway
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| Name: | USS Cabot (CVL-28) |
| Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 16 March 1942 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. A. C. Read |
| Commissioned: | 24 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 February 1947 |
| Recommissioned: | 27 October 1948 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 January 1955 |
| Struck: | 1 August 1972 |
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| Class and type: | Independence-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 11,000 |
| Length: | 622.5 ft (189.7 m) |
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| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,569 officers and men |
| Armament: | 26 × Bofors 40 mm guns |
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USS Cabot
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Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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New Orleans, Louisiana (1990-1997) Brownsville, Texas (1997-2001) |
| NRHP Reference # | 90000334 |
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| Added to NRHP | June 21, 1990 |
| Designated NHL | June 21, 1990 |
| Removed from NRHP | August 7, 2001 |
| Delisted NHL | August 7, 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. 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.
Cabot sailed from Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island with Air Group 31 aboard, on 8 November 1943 for Pearl Harbor, where she arrived on 2 December. Clearing for Majuro on 15 January 1944, she joined TF 58 to begin the consistently high quality of war service which was to win her a Presidential Unit Citation. From 4 February to 4 March 1944, she launched her planes in strikes on Roi, Namur, and the island stronghold of Truk, aiding in the neutralization of these Japanese bases as her part in the invasion of the Marshalls.
Cabot returned to Pearl Harbor for a brief repair period, but was back in action from Majuro for the pounding raids on the Palaus, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai at the close of March 1944. She sailed to provide valuable air cover for the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) operation from 22–25 April, and 4 days later began to hurl her air power at Truk, Satawan, and Ponape. She cleared Majuro again on 6 June for the preinvasion air strikes in the Mariana Islands, and on 19 and 20 June launched sorties in the key Battle of the Philippine Sea, the famous "Marianas Turkey Shoot", which hopelessly crippled Japanese naval aviation. Cabot's air group 31 pounded Japanese bases on Iwo Jima, Pagan, Rota, Guam, Yap and Ulithi as the carrier continued her support of the Marianas operation until 9 August.
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