USS Cabot WW II
CVL - 28
"The Iron Woman"
Her Final Trip Home

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 Dédalo 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.

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 Crew Quarters Bunks

Catapult Room
Once Damaged By Kamikazi! Anchor Chains

Radar Pilot Briefing Area

Ordinance Area Near Where The Kamikazi Hit

Flight Deck Island

Inside Island Captains Chair Inside Island

Stern Starboard Side Bow Starboard Side


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	Crew Quarters Bunks

Catapult Room Once Damaged By Kamikazi!	Anchor Chains

Radar	Pilot Briefing Area

Ordinance Area	Near Where The Kamikazi Hit

Flight Deck	Island

Inside Island Captains Chair	Inside Island

Stern Starboard Side	Bow Starboard Side