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United States Navy — Aircraft carrier CVL-28

USS Cabot (CVL-28)

Independence-class aircraft carrier

USS Cabot (CVL-28)
Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-262768 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — CVL-28 The U.S. light aircraft carrier USS Cabot (CVL-28) underway at sea, 26 July 1945. On deck are aircraft of Carrier Air Group 32 (CVG-32). Cabot had departed Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii (USA), on 24 July as part of Task Force 12.3. En route to Eniwetok, the carrier launched three strikes on Wake Island on 1 August, whereas the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and destroyers bombarded the island.

Service

  1. United States Navy as Cabot24 July 1943 — 21 January 1955771 days of the war
  2. Spanish Navy as Dédalo30 August 1967 — 5 August 1989
Full service history About 864 words
Independence-class aircraft carrier Particulars
Name
USS Cabot
Pennant / hull number
CVL-28
Namesake
John Cabot
Builder
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down
16 March 1942
Launched
4 April 1943
Commissioned
24 July 1943
Decommissioned
11 February 1947
Recommissioned
27 October 1948
Struck
1 August 1972
Fate
Scrapped, 2002 (2002)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
11,000 long tons (11,177 t)
Length
189.74 m (622.5 ft)
Beam
21.79 m (71.5 ft)
Draught
7.92 m (26 ft)
Speed
32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
Complement
1,569
Main gun
40 mm (1.6 in)

John Cabot (1450-1498), the Venetian navigator, discovered the North American continent in 1497 while sailing under the sponsorship of King Henry VII of England.

The second Cabot (CVL-28) was laid down as light cruiser Wilmington (CL-79) on 16 March 1942, by New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.; reclassified to an aircraft carrier (CV-28) on 2 June 1942; renamed Cabot on 23 June 1942; converted while building and launched on 4 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. A.C. Read; reclassified to a small aircraft carrier (CVL-28) on 15 July 1943; and commissioned on 24 July 1943, Capt. M.F. Shoeffel in command.

Cabot sailed from Naval Air Station (NAS) Quonset Point, R.I., on 8 November 1943 for Pearl Harbor, T.H., where she arrived on 2 December. Clearing for Majuro in the Marshall Islands on 15 January 1944, she joined Task Force 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 in the Carolines, aiding in the neutralization of these Japanese bases as her part in the invasion of the Marshalls.

Continue to the full service history About 864 words

From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Cabot II (CVL-28)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Armament
  • 26 × Bofors 40 mm guns
Aircraft
  • 35 aircraft

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Cabot (CVL-28) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Service history reproduced verbatim from Cabot II (CVL-28) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-262768 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons