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Runner485

Posted 2017-07-24 5:38 AM (#84509)

COMSUBBBS

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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...

Ric

Posted 2017-07-24 6:18 AM (#84510 - in reply to #84509)

Plankowner

Posts: 9164

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.

Runner485

Posted 2017-07-24 6:33 AM (#84511 - in reply to #84510)

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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...

JrKrup, Skimmer

Posted 2017-07-24 9:11 AM (#84512 - in reply to #84511)

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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?

Ric

Posted 2017-07-24 9:12 AM (#84513 - in reply to #84511)

Plankowner

Posts: 9164

Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: RE: USS Cod Museum visit

Ya couldn'ta missed him, he's an oldfart...

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