That ship's "memorial" website (usscabot.com) has interesting (and sad) photos which detail the salvage process. The Texas Air Museum bought her tower superstructure, so at least a small part of the ship didn't get sliced up and trucked down to Mexico.
I was driving down the interstate(?) that connects South Padre Island and Brownsville in the late nineties with my parents and and looked off to the left, towards an inlet from the ocean.
"Hey, that looks like an aircraft carrier. What's it doing here?" I didn't know that the Cabot had been moved.
Sad they never were able to get the money together to preserve it.