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U.S.S. CABILDO

(LSD-16)

TRIED - TESTED - PROVEN

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USS CABILDO (LSD-16) - a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship

In Commission 1945 to 1970

LSD-16 Deployments - Major Events

Add a LSD-16 Shellback Initiation Add a LSD-16 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JUL1944-Keel Date: 24 JUL 1944
at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Newport News VA
DEC1944-Launch Date: 22 DEC 1944
MAR1945-Commissioned: 15 MAR 1945
OCT1950-OCT1950Recommisioned
JAN1956-OCT1956West Pac
JAN1959-MAY1959West Pac
MAR1962-Shellback Initiation - 6 MAR 1962 - Pacific Ocean
MAR1962- Shellback Initiation - 6 MAR 1962 - Pacific Ocean
OCT1962-OCT1962Cuban Missle Blockade
JAN1965-DEC1966West Pac-Viet Nam
MAR1965-DEC1965West Pac-Viet Nam
MAR1967-JUL1967West Pac
JAN1968-DEC1969West Pac-Viet Nam
MAY1968-DEC1968West Pac-Viet Nam
MAY1968-JAN1969west-pac vietnam
JUN1968-DEC1968West Pac-Viet Nam
MAR1970-Decommissioned: 31 MAR 1970

LSD-16 General Specifications

Class: Casa Grande-class dock landing ship

Complement: 326 Officers and Enlisted

Displacement: 4032 tons

Length: 457 feet 9 inches

Beam: 72 feet

Draft: 18 feet

Final Disposition: Sunk as a target September 1985



USS CABILDO (LSD-16)



Cabildo (LSD-16) was launched 22 December 1944 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Newport News Va.; sponsored by Miss A. B. Pendleton; and commissioned 15 March 1945 Commander E. B. Holdorff USNR in command.


Cabildo sailed from New York City 6 May 1945 for Pearl Harbor where she arrived 8 June. She carried out her duties of docking and repairing small craft transporting amphibious craft and operating boat-pools at Guam and Okinawa in July. After carrying boats to the Philippines in August Cabildo reported in Wakanoura Wan Honshu on 11 September. Here she loaded Javanese Dutch and Australians rescued from Japanese prison camps who she carried to Okinawa. Laden with men of the Army Engineers she arrived at Manila 3 October then sailed for Japan where she acted as receiving and repair ship at Sasebo and Yokosuka until 19 April 1946.


Cabildo returned to the west coast 12 May 1946 and was decommissioned 15 January 1947. Recommissioned at San Diego 5 October 1950 she took part in atomic weapons tests in the Marshalls and on 21 November 1951 sailed from San Diego for duty in Korean waters. She lifted soldiers and marines from Japan to Korea and from Korea's east coast to the Inchon battle lines and during a part of her tour served as flagship and tender to Mine Squadron 3 in its dangerous operations. While with this group in April off Wonsan Cabildo received a direct hit from a shore battery but suffered no casualties and was able to continue her mission.


Returning to San Diego 2 September 1952 Cabildo prepared for another extended Far Eastern deployment from 3 July 1953 to 23 April 1954. In 1955 she was fitted with mezzanine and helicopter decks and from that time operated extensively with Marine units in developing the vertical envelopment concept of amphibious warfare. Cabildo's west coast operations alternated with two tours of duty in the Far East from January 1956 to July 1958. Clearing San Diego on 11 February 1959 she carried craft and an underwater demolition team detachment to the Aleutians before continuing to Japan. After duty in Japanese and Formosan waters she returned to Long Beach 5 June 1959. Amphibious exercises at Okinawa highlighted her 1960 deployment which began 16 February and continued through the major portion of the year.


Cabildo received two battle stars for service in the Korean war.

[Note: The above USS CABILDO (LSD-16) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS CABILDO (LSD-16) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]