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Spanish Navy / Armada Espanola - Aircraft Carrier
R 01 SPS Dedalo
 

sorry, no insignia
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Type, class:
US Independence class light aircraft carrier

Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, USA
 
STATUS:
Laid down: March 16, 1942 (as USS Cabot / CVL 28)
Launched: April 4, 1943
Commissioned: July 24, 1943
Decommissioned: February 11, 1947
Recommissioned: October 27, 1948
Decommissioned: January 21, 1955
 
loaned to Spanish Navy - August 30, 1967
renamed SPS Dedalo (R 01)
purchased in 1972
refitted in 1976
Decommissioned: August 1989
Fate:
finally sold for scrap / scrapped in 2002
 
 
Technical Data:

Length:
189,7 meters (622.5 ft)
Beam: 33,27 meters (109 ft)
Draft: 7,9 meters (26 ft)
Displacement: 11000 tons (full load)
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement: 1112
 
Propulsion:
4 x
Babcock & Wilcox boilers
4 x General Electric steam turbines
100000 shp (75000 kW)
4 shafts / 4 propellers
 
Armament:
26 x
Bofors 40mm guns
 
Aviation:
Flight deck:
168x22 meters
Hangar: 70x13x5 meters / 2 aircraft elevators
up to 33 aircraft, max.
Hawker Siddeley AV-8S Matador
Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King
 
 
images 

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Hawker Siddeley AV-8S Matador, Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King and Agusta-Bell AB212 aircraft aboard SPS Dedalo (R 01) - 1988

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SPS Dedalo (R 01) - 1988

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Hawker Siddeley AV-8S Matador (AV-8A Harrier) over SPS Dedalo (R 01) - 1988

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SPS Dedalo (R 01) at Naval Station Rota, Spain - February 1982

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SPS Dedalo (R 01) - 1981

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SPS Dedalo (R 01) at Naval Station Rota, Spain - 1981

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SPS Dedalo (R 01) at Naval Station Rota, Spain - 1976



US Navy service - USS Cabot (CVL 28)

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USS Cabot (CVL 28) - 1952

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USS Cabot (CVL 28) - late 1940's (NNAM)

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USS Cabot (CVL 28) - July 1945

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USS Cabot (CVL 28) - 1944

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USS Cabot (CVL 28) - undated
 
 
Dédalo (Spanish for Daedalus) was the first Spanish aircraft carrier and the second aviation ship in the Spanish Navy (after the seaplane tender and balloon ship Dédalo that took part in the landings at Al Hoceima in 1925). She remained the fleet's flagship until Príncipe de Asturias replaced her. Dédalo was formerly the World War II-era light aircraft carrier USS Cabot, which was acquired from the United States in the 1960s.

In 1967, after over twelve years in mothballs in the United States, Cabot was loaned to Spain. The loan was converted to a sale in 1972. Dédalo initially deployed with the Spanish Navy as a helicopter-only antisubmarine warfare carrier operating the SH-3D Sea King and other helicopters from 1967 to 1976.

After the world's first testing in November 8, 1972 it was decided to order and deploy short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) AV-8S Matadors (AV-8A Harrier) when Dédalo was overhauled. Since the Harriers' downdraft on vertical landing would have damaged the wooden deck, protective metal sheathing was installed on the rear area of the flight deck. The first batch of six AV-8S single seat and two TAV-8S two seat aircraft were delivered to the Armada Española throughout 1976. A second batch of four AV-8S aircraft was delivered in 1980. Unlike some carriers used for Harrier operations, a ski-jump to assist STOVL takeoff was never installed on Dédalo, limiting the maximum takeoff weight of the Harriers.

She then typically carried an air group of eight AV-8S fighters, four Sea King antisubmarine warfare helicopters and four AB 212ASW Twin Hueys although Sikorsky S-55/CH-19s, AH-1 Cobras, and other specialized helicopters from the Spanish army, air force, and navy flew from her flight deck.

Replaced by the Spanish-built S/VTOL carrier Príncipe de Asturias (R 11) in 1988, the Dédalo was struck by the Spanish Navy in August 1989, and she was given to a private organization in the U.S. for use as a museum ship. However, that private organization was unable to pay its creditors, and on 10 September 1999, the ship was auctioned off by the United States Marshals Service to Sabe Marine Salvage of Rockport, Texas. The scrapping of the hulk was completed in 2002.

source: wikipedia
 
 
 
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