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.

The first USS Cabot of the United States was a 14-gun brig, one of the first ships of the Continental Navy, and the first to be captured in the American Revolutionary War in the Battle off Yarmouth (1777).

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Cabot, after the explorer John Cabot. USS Cabot (1775) , was a 14-gun brig purchased in 1775 and captured by the British in 1777. USS Cabot (CV-16) , was renamed Lexington (CV-16) on 16 June 1942, prior to launch.

CABOT had fought off several kamikazes when one, already flaming from hits, crashed the flight deck on the port side, destroying the still-firing 20 mm gun platform, disabling the 40 mm mounts and a gun director.

The second vessel authorized by Congress for the salt-water Continental Navy 1 November 1775 was the 14-gun [2-masted] brig Cabot, (formerly a Maryland-owned merchant brig, Sally, that was likely in the Caribbean trade for sugar, molasses, rum, coffee, ginger, chocolate, and mahogany).

USS Cabot (CVL-28) is hit by a Kamikaze, while operating with Task Force 38 off Luzon, 25 November 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-289608).

Oct 7, 2024 · Initially, it featured 26 Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and several Oerlikon 20 mm cannons for close-in air defense. These weapons were strategically positioned to provide overlapping fields of fire, maximizing coverage against enemy aircraft.

Cabot returned to action 11 December 1944, steaming with the force striking Luzon, Formosa, Indo-China, Hong Kong, and the Nansei Shoto in support of the Luzon operations. From 10 February to 1 March 1945 her planes pounded the Japanese homeland and the Bonins to suppress opposition to the invasion of Iwo Jima.

Beam: 71½ feet; extreme width at flight deck: 109 feet 2 inches. Draft: 26 feet . Displacement: approx. 11,000 tons . Speed: 32 knots . Planes: 45 . Crew: 1569 . Armament: 26 40mm guns.

Several ships fired at him during the approach, and every gun the Cabot had that could bear picked up the target and started shooting. The kamikaze's approach was long and shallow and it looked certain the plane would hit the deck, but gun crews fearlessly kept shooting.