USS Cabot WW II
CVL - 28
"The Iron Woman"
Comes Home
To New Orleans, For Good!
To New Orleans, For Good!
After WW II the USS Cabot was decommissioned to reserve 11 Feb 1947.
Recommissioned 27 Oct 1948 as a Naval Air Reserve training carrier. Modernized
for ASW support in Mar 1950-Feb 1951. Decommissioned to reserve 21 Jan 1955.
Reclassified as an "Aircraft Transport" and redesignated AVT-3, 15 May 1959,
while in reserve.
Overhauled at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (1965-67) in preparation for transfer
to Spain. Loaned to Spain, renamed D�dalo and commissioned 30 Aug 1967; she was
used as an ASW helicopter carrier and designated PH-01. Stricken from US NVR 1
Aug 1972; sold to Spain 5 Dec 1972. Reclassified as an aircraft carrier and
redesignated PA-01, 28 Sep 1976, shortly before she began operating Harriers.
Redesignated R-01, in accordance to NATO practice, in 1980.
FATE: Stricken from the Spanish Navy List, 5 Aug 1989, at New Orleans, and
donated to a private organization for preservation as a museum ship. Plans to
memorialize her, however, met with no success and she was sold for scrapping in
1997 and towed to Port Isabel, TX (18 Oct), then to Brownsville (9 Aug 1998).
These photos are from the August 1989 event in New Orleans when she was sailed on her last military voyage into the Port Of New Orleans with a great deal of celebration and excitement especially among the men who had served on her.
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Old Shipmates Gathered
In New Orleans.Noel Is There Too! They Remember "The Cabot,
When She Was Young!"Their" Score
Against Imperial Japan
And Nazi Germany
Photo At National
Museum Naval Aviation.A Formation Of Vintage Aircraft Flies Over. Tug With
Red, White, And Blue Water.Escort In The USS Cabot. 
Port Side Stern. Port Side Bow. Lots Of Officers And
Important People.Noel Is There Too! The Hanger Deck. The Hanger Deck. Surgery Room. Crew Quarters Bunks. Catapult Room.
Once Damaged By Kamikazi!Anchor Chains. Radar Area. Pilot Briefing Area. Ordinance Storage Area. Near Where One Kamikazi Hit. 
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