Dock Landing Ship

LSD 16   -   USS Cabildo

 

 

 

USS Cabildo (LSD 16)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Casa Grande - class;

Builder:

 

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.; Newport News, Virginia, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: unk.

Launched: December 22, 1944

Commissioned: March 15, 1945

Decommissioned: January 15, 1947

laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet

Recommissioned: October 5, 1950

Decommissioned: March 31, 1970

Fate: Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Struck from the Naval Register, October 15, 1976.
Final Disposition: utilized as a fleet target, sunk by grounding at San Nicholas Island, California in September 1985.

Homeport:

 

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Namesake:

 

> see history, below;

Ship's Motto:

 

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Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > Dock Landing Ship / Casa Grande - class

 

ship images

 

Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval Historical Center

 

Namesake & History:

 

 

USS Cabildo (LSD 16):

 

 

 

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