USS Cod Submarine Memorial

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF COD STEWARDSHIP

The Cleveland Coordinating Committee for Cod, Inc., a civilian organization designed to save Cod from scrapping when the submarine reserve training program was terminated in 1971, was a direct outcome of the scrapping of USS Gar, the reserve training sub in Cleveland prior to Cod's arrival in the summer of 1959. A fixture on Cleveland’s lakefront since 1947, Gar had fascinated thousands of children and adults who toured the veteran of 14 war patrols in WWII when it wasn't being used for reserve training duties. But sentiment at the time was that these old warhorses were no longer useful and weren't the sexy new "atomic submarines " that were grabbing all the headlines of the time. So she was towed to Ashtabula for scrapping along with USS Tambor, Detroit's reserve trainer.

For a while the Gar and Cod were moored together at our dock. A few items came aboard Cod from Gar, including the wood dog house over the AB hatch and the SJ radar dish. The $7 million cost to build Gar in 1940 returned to the federal government only $56,000 in scrapping. Oh to have these two boats today ...

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