USS Cod (SS-224)

USS Cod

History
United States
Name:	USS Cod
Namesake:	Cod
Ordered:	1941
Builder:	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08224.htm
Laid down:	21 July 1942
Launched:	21 March 1943
Sponsored by:	Mrs. G.M. Mahoney
Acquired:	21 June 1943
Commissioned:	21 June 1943
Decommissioned:	21 June 1954
In service:	1943
Out of service:	1971
Struck:	15 December 1971
Fate:	Museum ship
Status:	Museum ship at Cleveland, Ohio since 01 May 1976
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged
Length:	312 ft 0 in (95.10 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	17 ft (5.2 m) maximum
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears two propellers 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:	21 knots (24 mph) surfaced 9 kn (10 mph) submerged
Range:	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours at 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	300 ft (90 m)
Complement:	6 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament:	10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 4 stern), 1 × 4"/50 caliber gun (102 mm), later 1 x 5"/25 caliber gun (127 mm), 40 mm Bofors and 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
USS Cod (submarine)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
USS Cod moored at its permanent location in Cleveland's North Coast Harbor.
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Location	Cleveland, Ohio
Coordinates	41°30′36.3″N 81°41′29.7″W / 41.510083°N 81.691583°W / 41.510083; -81.691583Coordinates: 41°30′36.3″N 81°41′29.7″W / 41.510083°N 81.691583°W / 41.510083; -81.691583
Area	less than one acre
Built	1942
Built by	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Architectural style	Other, Submarine
NRHP Reference #	86000088
Added to NRHP	14 January 1986

USS Cod (SS/AGSS/IXSS-224) is a Gato-class submarine, the only vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the cod, named after the world's most important food fish of the North Atlantic and North Pacific.

Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut on 21 July 1942. The submarine's five diesel engines were built by General Motors' Cleveland Diesel plant located on the west side of Cleveland. She was launched on 21 March 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. G.M. Mahoney), and commissioned on 21 June 1943 with Commander James C. Dempsey in command. Dempsey had already won fame by sinking the first Japanese destroyer lost in the war while in command of a tiny, World War I-era submarine.

She is now permanently moored as a museum ship in Cleveland, Ohio, and is open to visitors.

Cod arrived in Brisbane, Australia, on 2 October 1943 to prepare for her first war patrol. She sailed from there 20 days later. Penetrating the South China Sea, she contacted few targets, and launched an attack only once, on 29 November, with unobserved results. Returning to Fremantle, Western Australia, to refit from 16 December 1943 to 11 January 1944, Cod put to sea for her second war patrol in the South China Sea, off Java, and off Halmahera. On 16 February, she surfaced to sink a sampan by gunfire, and on 23 February, torpedoed a Japanese merchantman. She sent another to the bottom on 27 February and two days later attacked a third, only to be forced deep by a concentrated depth charging delivered by a Japanese escort ship.