It’s good to see the Love and attention giving to this old girl. This is our history, this is the home of the brave sailor, it gave all she had, now it’s time to Restore her to original condition. Long live Cod… a piece of our American history.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺👍👍👍👍👍👍
I was on Cleveland 2 years ago and was headed to the Rock & Roll HoF when I saw the Cod, I went there instead. Spent about 2 hours on the old girl, loved every minute! Thank for keeping her alive.
Ditto. Dad went to Cleveland clinic for surgery - and my brother and I were planning on visiting RaRHOF. The day before Dad's surgery, we all came across the Cod and even my 70-something step mom also climbed down the narrow ladder and we all had a great time on this boat. I'll never be able to comprehend the courage of those young boys living in that tiny tube...
I wanted to visit this but didn't, the RRHOF...it's...meh. You gotta be a real music fan to like it. I was just kinda...ok, whatever. The whole inductee thing sours me.
I took a tour of the Cod in Cub Scouts early seventies. It started my love of boats. Ended up in the Coast Guard. Glad to see it getting some TLC. Where is it going after drydock? I hope back to Cleveland.
We live South of Cleveland and the "collision" was the talk of the town for a few days. So awesome to see this piece of History being preserved for future generations.
Its amazing, having worked on so many of them myself how these hastily built ships and subs from WWII have stayed strong all these years later. Thanks for keeping shipshape.
@@ninjabearpress2574 there are several WWII memorial subs around the U.S. I've toured them in Buffalo and Charleston SC (as well as the Requin), and there are many others.
My neighbor, CPT Charles Podorian USN Ret. was an officer on the Cod during WWII. When the Cod found the Dutch Sub, Oboe 19, stuck on a reef east of Viet Nam towards the end of the war, they transferred the Dutch crew to the Cod when efforts to pull Oboe 19 off the reef failed. Lt Podorian and a chief went back to the Dutch sub to rig it for explosive destruction. Lt and the chief also found a large stash of hard liquor which the both heavily "sampled". This might explain why when they returned to the Cod to detonate the sub, total fizzle out. The Cod then shelled the Oboe 19. It is still stuck, nose high, on the reef today. Cpt Podorian passed away around April, 2007 while I was in Tikrit Iraq. When I returned to Honolulu, 6/07, we all paddles out on surf boards and spread Cpt Podorian's ashes at Brown's Reef, Kahala Hawaii.
Take good care of her. This boot is a treasure chest full of human stories witch deserves that future generations learn about history and traditions of the US NAVY Submarine Service. USS COD is one on my list of things that I wish to see ,touch and learn about . Maybe one day....
For those who are curious about Galvanic Corrosion and Sacrificial Anodes: Galvanic corrosion is when the iron in the steel of the submarine forms a battery with a different kind of metal. Brass for example, when near steel underwater, will form a galvanic connection through the water to draw electrons from the iron to the brass*. By drawing electrons away, the steel becomes susceptible to rusting with oxygen in the water. This accelerates rusting of the steel. The sacrificial anodes mentioned in the video are made of metals that react more easily than the iron in the steel. By the sacrificial anodes reacting more easily, the electron flow from the steel is slowed down, because the electrons come from the anode more easily. Unfortunately, the sacrificial anodes attached to the submarine were made of zinc, which is a good anode in salt water. Since the submarine was a fresh water, different metals should have been used than zinc (he mentions aluminum and another metal).
Our director is trying to see if we can do an open house for the people of Erie, but it's just on the drawing board right now. Erie has been very welcoming. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this. This heritage, the piece of history, needs to be, deserves to be kept in good condition. I'm glad that the museum association is willing to take the steps to keep her in good condition. Are they going to dredge out the docking area before her return?
@@jefffrayer8238, cost might not be the biggest hurtle as I'm sure the EPA has a bunch of hoops that you have to jump through before the first bucket of silt could be moved!
you know, wood taken from HMS victory is highly prized by woodworkers to make pieces with historical significance. might be worth putting some of the scrap plating to one side so some people in the blacksmithing community have an opportunity to work with historical steel. stuff as simple as paper weights and knives would be sweet things to make and own with historical steel from the USS cod.
Nice idea..... I'd never thought of a museum doing that: selling the scrap from drydock repairs/maintenance. But hell, as a Texan, (yes, the stereotype about us being big on State pride is true, lol) for example... I'd love to actually have a piece-ANY piece- of the great, historical old BB35 USS Texas Battleship we have here in our state that is removed as scrap during dry dock repairs. We also have the Cavalla here, which is a WWII sub, like the Cod, and I love seeing her when I get the chance, as well as the USS Drum, over in Mobile Alabama, that happens to be amoungst a lot of great museum machines.... you should go to Mobile, see the mighty USS Alabama, the Drum, and the war planes they have there. Here, we have Cavalla that, since she was a later-war, was a Guppy program converversion after the war though, so looks different now, and isn't in her original WWII configuration, sadly. But none the less, other than the sail looking different, the bow having been streamlined for better underwater performance (i assume...) and there being some extra sound gear up front in the torp room, not much is VISIBLE to that conversion that I remember off hand, I havent been there in a few years now, but have visited her several times. I love that boat.... she has a happy feel to her, is very magnetic, as is the USS Drum! OK well I see I have rambled well on too far, my ADD has taken over. Apologies. I like your idea.... I'd love to be able to purchase a piece of history.... even if it were simply an old rusty nut or bolt, ot a ground off rivet or something.... if it were to have been a part of the USS Texas... BB35, the worlds ONLY surviving Dreadnaught Battleship, and one so steeped in history.... saw both world wars.... Launched in 1912, I believe? Was in service come 1914, (just going off memory here, forgive my mistakes if i am wrong but i know i am close) Id be trhilled to have a piece of it, rather it were made into something nice or not :)
@@jackhole7869 I remember reading that scrap metal from sunken ships is actually highly valued because it's the only metal left that doesn't contain radioactive contamination.
Most of the reason she's in such good condition even now is because of the TLC given her by people like amigodiver and the rest of the museum folks. USS Cod is a treasure and, I think one of the best preserved of the WWII fleet boats. There are at least a couple whose condition has deteriorated to the point where the kindest thing that can be done for them is take them out and give them a deep water warship's grave. Love your channel TAO and Gregg's as well. I'm learning a lot from you guys.
In Pittsburgh, we have the USS Requin, a WWII submarine, and after numerous tours I am still AMAZED at how these things were built, virtually every inch inside is accounted for. The draftsman who drew up these ships-FANTASTIC JOB!!!
What's amazing is the level of detail that was maintained in spite of being built at a break-neck pace. Everyone involved in the design, construction, and fitting out of these boats knew that they were going into harm's way and that lives of people they would never meet relied upon them being meticulous in their work. Truly awe-inspiring workmanship.
And it was all done with slide rulers and drafting tables and actual blue prints. Tons of blue prints. I wish there would be a video on how the Japanese designed their ships but I guess most of that info was burned at the end of the war.
Several years ago we were in Cleveland and friends took us to see the Cod. Great trip and wonderful to see how well the innards of the ship were preserved. Not often one can see sights such as this. Keep up the good work.
i am a retired marine of over 26yrs, a little over 2 of those years i did guard duty on a navy battle ship then on 2 different subs, on one sub we were under water over 4 months, i was so glad to see the sun and after that i have nothing but respect for all our service members of the silent service
This video brings back many memories. Right after graduating from high school in 1964, I became an apprentice Shipwright at the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco (later renamed S.F. bay Naval Shipyard). As an apprentice part of my training was at the submarine bay. There were three dry docks there for subs where the shipwrights would put up staging (scaffolding) all along the sides of the boats so repairs and painting could be done. I then moved on to the Dock Shipwrights where I learned how to make the blocks the ships would sit on and lay them out in the dry dock. I spent Four years there as an apprentice. As soon as I got my journeyman papers, I got my draft notice and spent three years in the Army. I never went back to the shipyard as it was closed shortly thereafter.
Awesome! Been to Cleveland, and downtown to the R&RHOF..... which was a let down. It's just OK. And that's being generous. The real treat is the Cod, sitting next door. This is a really cool piece of American history, and it is great to see you guys taking such good care of her. My Grandpa was in the Pacific during WWII and he would be so proud to see this. Awesome!
Thank you for showing all of us the Old Girl while she's high and dry. What's scary is when I worked on New York Harbor Tugs we had some boats with sterns in worse shape than the USS Cod is in and we went to sea! If we were lucky they put Band-Aids on the really bad parts in Shipyard but sometimes they just said "sail it"! Thanks for all of the time that you've spent in the water taking care of her. Hopefully, this repair period will give Her live for many many more years!
Our uncle Frank is on eternal patrol on the USS Herring. Also a gato class sub. Interesting to see her sister ship out of the water. Helps me picture what his life was like aboard the Herring. Thanks
Thanks to you and all the dedicated people who are making sure our history is preserved. We have so few of these boats left, and they are deserving of our attention. We also owe a great debt to those who served on them, and especially for those men still on Eternal Patrol.
I have toured this grand old gal and it has always astounded me at how well preserved she is. To se her high and dry is just as impressive. Would love to see this in person. The only other boat I've seen like this, was my carrier when she was drydocked, and that was awe inspiring, Good luck and hope to see back in Cleveland soon.
Thank you for posting this video, Jason. Questions.... Is this truly the first time the Cod has been out of the water since the 1960's when it went to Lorain? When it comes to the galvanic corrosion, why is the corrosion advanced on the sections in close proximity to her pier in Cleveland? Now that you have inspected things out of the water, any thoughts on what these repairs will add to the Cod's life expectancy?
I am no expert when it comes to water corrosion, only speculate that its closest to the ground source, could also be part of the city drain near the bow which is overflow from roadways which if you live in Ohio you know we use a lot of salt. This is the first time she has left the dock since the 60's, yes. We are adding 60-70 sacrificial anodes to her hull in hopes to create a corrosion point which we can change out as needed. also she is getting all new steel around her sides.
Save some of that steel. If you Cod guys are into it, I can make you some knives (I'm a blacksmith, among other things) from the steel plates. Might be a good way for you to help raise funds. I'm pretty sure that even the "outer" steel on those boats has a high carbon content. If not, don't worry. I can case harden mild steel, too. I'm in central Pa., so Erie is probably about 6-8 hours away. I can drive up there to pick it up.
This adds a major item to my travel bucket list! These old vessels fascinate me, but I was unaware of this one. We've had so much excitement here in Texas about moving the battleship Texas to dry dock. Thanks for your dedication and work and preserving the USS Cod. 🌿⭐ 🌿
Man o man. That last view from down under looking up.Down the keel from the bow. Like looking down a kitchen knife. Beautiful lines , Old Girl. Haven't lost your figure, after all these years. My thanks to the Men and to the family's of all who served aboard this Boat. And to all who have come together to Preserve this porthole into the past. For future generations to admire.
You should cut some of the scrap steel into 3 inch pieces and sell it at your gift shop . Have it stamped piece of the Cod . I have a piece of teak from the Missouri. Just a thought to generate money for the restoration …I’d love to have a piece!
The worst corrosion occurs where the hull is dried and wet repeatedly along the waterline. I noticed the outer doors have tabs welded to them so they can't be opened. Great video tour!
@@626pingj Hey shipmate. I was aboard the dumpster fish during it's overhaul in 1976. Sea trials, Daso, and patrol. Fun times in the cape. Gold crew if i recall. Road 6 boats. 3 attacks and 3 Boomers from 1975 until 1997. 41 for freedom all the way. If i recall correctly, she is in Charleston as a Nuke prototype. Fair winds and following seas brother of the fin.
Thanks for sharing, I visited USS Cod in 2014 or 2016 when my qual boat, USS Nautilus SSN 571 had our reunion in Cleveland. Thank you for preserving this piece of history!
The insane amount of money, planning, knowledge skills, etc that go into what YOU are doing is so much greater than anything that the critics are even aware of. Anyone who pisses and moas about you guys "doing it wrong" is a total loser.
Wouldnt dream of negative comments for a vessel that served the country and did superb service. Thank you for all you are doing to preserve the past :)
you would be surprised the idiots that our country has. They complain about these "death machines" but don't realize that this machine is the reason they have the right to speak free without consequence. 111 thumbs down. Sad world.
Thanks for the tour. I'm hoping ACE or the City of Cleveland will do some dredging of her docking area prior to her return so we don't have some of these issues below the waterline persisting.
Thank you for posting and caring about our history, especially navy history. If we never forget why these machines were built maybe we might never have to build them (something like them) again! USMC 1986-1993.
Chiming in for the subvets' community, I send your crew a big thank you for doing this work! I want to understand this supposed galvanic corrosion: Can someone please explain (that's supposed to be ME, but since I may be missing something, I'll hold off and wait to hear from other voices) the differing metals at work causing this corrosion? I'll pick my words carefully to avoid confusion for readers. *Galvanic corrosion* results from differing chemical potentials in dissimilar metals that are in contact (welded, bolted, clamped, penetrating the hull, held in bearings, etc.) and then immersed in an electrolyte (salt water, brackish water, dirty water). The classic situation on submarines is where the more active nickel atoms in the steel alloys that make up the hull are picked off, one-by-one, by the potential between them and the copper atoms in the bronze propellers. ("Screws" is the name usually given the propellers.) To stop the nickel atoms from leaping into the water as ions, sacrificial anodes (the zinc blocks) are bolted to the hull, especially nearby to the bronze, because closeness matters. The zinc atoms are more eager to leap, so they jump into the water first, before the nickel in the hull. As a result, the zinc blocks slowly corrode away, appearing as though they are being eaten by sea-termites. As the gentleman points out, these zincs have not been chewed at all. The path for the electrochemical potential is from the positive (+), cathode in the bronze, through the bolts that hold the bronze screws to the shafts, along the steel shafts, through the shaft seals and bearings into the hull, along the hull to the negative (-), zinc anodes, and then into the electrolyte (the impure water, full of metallic salts). That completes the loop for electron flow. ...Except that in this case, the bronze has been removed. That would seem to explain the idle, unmolested state of the zinc anodes, right? Can anybody affirm/correct me? As I understand it, in order to have galvanic corrosion, you need those differing metals in physical contact. I may be wrong but my guess, here, is we are seeing, instead, corrosion of the hull through a redox (oxidation/reduction) reaction with oxygenated water, especially where the air and water take turns lapping the hull near the waterline. The iron in the hull is simply rusting (oxidizing). The sacrificial anodes would seem to play no role. I am eager to hear from anyone with a more solid technical background in electrochemistry/corrosion controls. I should note *electrolytic corrosion* , on the other hand, happens when an actual electrical current is made to flow between immersed metal structures. In such a case, the current flow tends to drive ions off one immersed pole and into the electrolyte. The end effect is approximately the same as with galvanic corrosion, but the metals need not be dissimilar and a power source is required to drive the corrosion process.
USS COD was SS-224, my father was radioman on USS SEACAT SS-399 which was one of 12 Subs that escorted the BB-63 Missouri into Tokyo Bay for the Surrender of the Japanese
I mean, really, why take off the props? You actually think someone is going to see her and take her for a spin? Why not restore her and actually take people for a ride and submerge? They take people for a ride on a B17!! Why not take her out and be a WWII sub again? I know I for one would go!!!
Question rather than displaying the ship sub in the water where the water is constantly damaging it why don’t y’all put it up on land and build a walkway. Around it so people can see it and you won’t have the corrosion problem and nothing else you could build on open or share over at where it won’t wouldn’t get rain down just food for thought
Land isn’t a great way of preservation either. Ships are designed to be supported by the water pressure, they are not designed to be out of the water for long periods of time. We almost lost HMS Victory a few years ago because she was warping and ripping herself apart in dry dock. Putting them in concrete like they did with the Mikasa is better, but apparently there are still challenges to that. Truth is all ships will always need to be dry docked and repaired due to corrosion.
Thank you for the excellent tour and explaination of the repairs being made to the Cod. I'm glad she has you and the other volunteers looking after her. She is a valuable piece of Naval history that deserves to be preserved for all to see.
Would it be worth considering returning the Cod to the museum dock stern in (the other way from original) so the other side of the boat takes the galvanic abuse and fender dents from the dock? Would it be worth turning the boat periodically much like the Navy does with the USS Constitution in Boston?
Don't wait for 6 to 8 weeks to give us an update Might I suggest every 3 to 4 weeks show us how she's coming along and any new developments. Thanks, I enjoyed.
How about since he isn't getting paid to do these updates, and he doesn't work for you, you just thank him for taking his own time to make the video and work on the sub? You are the perfect example of how selfish people are nowadays!
@@ironnads7975 If he wants to have a following on RU-vid and about the sub then kept us up to date, 6 to 8 weeks the project will be done, it supposedly will be back in Cleveland for the Labor Day festivities
@@davidschwartz5127 I really doubt that is his priority. I am sure his priority is the Submarine, and NOT keeping up with your selfish demands. He does all this for free, and you are a selfish jerk for saying all that.
This sub is the same class of sub as the USS Snook, which my Uncle Harold was on when it disappeared in April 1945. I went up to visit the Cod in 2016, and it was a really neat experience getting to see what submarine life used to be like.
Patriots like your uncle are the reason we work so hard to keep her afloat. His sacrifice and the sacrifice of the men and women like him deserve our gratitude and thanks.
Mt neighbor in Kahala Hawaii, Cpt Charles Podorian (ret) was a officer on the Cod during WWII. He was onboard when the Cod rescued the Dutch crew of the Obo-19 submarine when it ran aground on a reef east of Viet Nam. Chuck Podorian passed away while I was in Iraq, 2007. We spread his ashes off of Brown's Reef, later in 2007.
I’ve always loved the Gato class dubs. Beautiful submarines. I own just about every WWII submarine movie they made during the war and after. Quite interesting how they trimmed down the conning towers as the war proceeded.
Thank you so much for doing this video, I have watched the move videos, and shared with my pals in Cleveland, but this is the good stuff. I hope you plan on doing more updates on the Rehab. Ass a weldor, I really appreciate what the crew is doing, I sure hope Lincoln Electric is helping out with the weld expense.....would be good PR for them. Cheers and keep up the great work, Paul
The New Jersey page had a video about it, and I guess it was because they're designed to be in the water so long term out of the water kinda tears them apart
@@trevortimmreck - Have to mention that the "USS Cod Navy Fleet Submarine Floating Memorial" has been paid thousands of dollars by various mainstream media production companies, in exchange for being filmed/videotaped extensively by said companies - both her exterior floating and tied up to her dock and her interior spaces, from production companies including the video documentary division of the National Geographic Channel, and on up to the producers of big-budget mainstream Hollywood films as recently as 2019; in which USS Cod's interior was "converted cosmetically" to resemble a German U-Boat for an upcoming film (currently in post-production/final editing and scheduled for a 2022 theatre release date) starring Dolph Lundgren. If she was removed and displayed on land, her "WW II movie prop" earning power would be cut in half.
That's awesome to see. I was watching it live when they tugged it out and was wondering why it wasn't pulled out sideways but the stern being in mud explains it all. Surprised the USCG didn't just move their ship out of the way before y'all started to pull
All I can think of looking at this was the USS Stingray from the movie Down Periscope!! Funny though how certain things from World War II though were just "pretty" in a strange sort of way!! And I am speaking from a "design aspect" like this sub and the P51 Mustang had such "pleasing lines to them", it is almost hard to understand the "killing capacity" of these machines, when you see how sleek and fluid they look!!
Wow... talk about just catching a sub from critical death and waving it off like it's a natural occurrence. I think we are pushing our luck a little too far. Glad she was saved but how many weren't? If it zero... we're damn lucky... ... ...
Obviously you have a stray current problem at the dock....toured this in the 70's as a Scout field trip, it seemed huge, until I toured it as a 6 foot adult!! Glad to see she's getting some TLC!
With the incorrect sacrificial anodes , it appears that they didn't even have the cathodic protection equipment even running, judging by the excessive pitting. I used to be stationed at the Mare Island Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Vallejo California back in the early 1970s.
