I remember the landing of the 130 on the Forrestal. It was an experiment to see if it could be done just in case some really big cargo needed to be sent to a carrier at sea in an emergency. The 130 was the perfect choice as it is rugged (the Air Force regularly flew them into short, unpaved strips in 'Nam) and had excellent short landing and takeoff characteristics. This was done also aboard the larger carriers of the time with angled decks, unlike the P-2 launch off the older straight decked boat that the Coral Sea was at the time.
What is really amazing is according to the reports the pilot and copilot had never flown a multi-engine aircraft before. Now that is something considering the size and complexity of a 130. It reminds me of an autobiography of Curtis LeMay I read recently. LeMay was flying B-17's in 1940 when it was decided that a large number of B-24's needed to be ferried to England so the Army ordered B-17 pilots, LeMay among them, to the B-24 training base. Each pilot got to do just one landing in the B-24, then was assigned an aircraft and was told to fly it to England. A few of them got off course and crashed but the majority made it all the way. That's some flying. It was LeMay, by the way, the future head of SAC, who was one of the big champions of scrapping the carriers and building bombers.