she made it home only to be scrapped and sold to Japan as scrap steel.
It sure seems to be sad ending. I hate seeing any warhip scrapped.
Odd that at the end of the war she was in the best condition of all the Essex class carriers, yet she was scrapped and Yorktown and Intrepid remain.
There's a website for the USS Cabot (CVL-28) that shows the ship in various stages of scrapping. This ship was sold to Spain in the sixties and bought back in the nineties to be made a museum in New Orleans. The corporation went bankrupt. The ship was sold for scrap. The website is http://www.usscabot.com It was the last remaining of the Independence class light carriers that were converted from cruiser hulls. As a 20 year Navy veteran, I agree with you, it hurts seeing any warship scrapped. I am not looking forward to the day when the three carriers on which I served, Kennedy, Nimitz, and Eisenhower, are decommisioned.