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.
Yep. The late '90s is about when the Cabot was first moved to the Brownsville area; for the preceding five years or so, I watched it take on an increasing list and become overrun with rats. After the *first* preservation group bought it from Spain, it lay moored to the Esplanade Street Wharf on the Mississippi, near New Orleans' French Quarter.