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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2672 Location: New Jersey | Subject: USS Cod Museum visit I returned home yesterday from my reunion and our visit to the Cod. It is in unbelievable shape and very well kept. It was a pleasure visiting it. But I believe the hatches are much smaller in diameter then the boat I served on and for some reason the ladders going down the torpedo rooms were much steeper too. The Cod Base crew treated us to a Bar-B-Que and all of us engineroom guys had a wonderful experience. I wanted to meet Paul Farace who was around but I was unable to find him. I did congratulate the crew on the fine work they do in the upkeep of Cod. We tried to visit the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame which was a very short walk form Cod, but it was Saturday and the city was holding a few different fund raisers and it was so crowed that we decided not to test our capacity to mingle with what seemed like a few million people... All in all our reunion was a resounding success... | ||
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: USS Cod Museum visit Did you happen to run into a guy named Fritz? He and I put Flasher in commission. Great boat in great shape. | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2672 Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: USS Cod Museum visit Sorry Ric, There were so many Cod guys their I wouldn't know if I met him or not, though I did speak to many of them... | ||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1323 Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: USS Cod Museum visit I have family in Cleveland, and on the way home from a Torsk work weekend, I flew in. I decided to drop by the Cod just to take a gander, and made the mistake of wearing my Torsk Bandits t-shirt. Fitz, upon seeing the tee, immediately put a paint scraper in my hand and pointed to a section that needed scraping. So much for the tour of the boat. I wonder about the status of the two Fairbanks Morse diesels the Cod has in storage. I believe they got them from a scrapped tug boat. Anyone hear about them lately? | ||
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: USS Cod Museum visit Ya couldn'ta missed him, he's an oldfart... | ||