Propulsion: 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 Diesel engines 5,400 hp each driving electric generators.Ĥ × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears, two propellers. Larger images are available upon request. Images below are lower resolution that the actual photos due to limitations on file size.
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To download tap or click each photo to open the full size image, and then save as your computer or mobile device prescribes. Saved from potentially being scrapped by Cleveland Coordinating Committee to Save Cod, Inc as was the fate of many WWII era submarines, Cod became a floating memorial and museum on Lake Erie and opened to the public in 1976.įor more information please visit the USS Cod website at: īelow are nearly 300 images in both color and black and white taken in September 2020.
Cod conducted seven Pacific patrols during the second world war sinking or damaging twenty enemy vessels and another two dozen “Junks” as the decimated Japanese merchant fleet began to rely on smaller vessels to transport goods and war supplies.įollowing the war Cod was decommissioned in 1954 and used as a training vessel on Lake Erie until 1971 when she was finally stricken. Cod was among the first class of the “long range” Fleet type submarine. Ordered by the Navy in September 1940 and launched in March 1943.
Welcome aboard! The USS Cod is a Gato Class World War II diesel/electric submarine permanently moored as a floating memorial and museum in Cleveland, OH.
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