USS Cabot (CVL-28)

USS Cabot (July 1945)
History
United States
Name	Cabot
Namesake	John Cabot
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
Stricken	1 August 1972
Identification	Hull 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 type	Independence-class aircraft carrier
Displacement	11,000 tons (standard)
Length	622.5 ft (189.7 m)
Beam	71.5 ft (21.8 m) (waterline) 109 ft 2 in (33.27 m) (overall)
Draft	26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement	1,569 officers and men
Armament	26 × Bofors 40 mm guns
Aircraft carried	35 aircraft
USS Cabot
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Former U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana (1990–1997) Brownsville, Texas (1997–2001)
NRHP reference No.	90000334[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	21 June 1990
Designated NHL	21 June 1990
Removed from NRHP	7 August 2001
Delisted NHL	7 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.