[ARC5] OT - USS COD Dry Dock pictures

[Bob Groh]

Thank you, Bill, for the pictures and your service in the military. Greatly
enjoyed the walk by. Is the restoration work being done for a museum?

Bob Groh, WA2CKY

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:21 AM Bill KA8VIT <ka8vit at ka8vit.com> wrote:

> Thought off-topic I thought many of you would enjoy seeing the pictures.
>
> Some of the COD’s crew and a number of COD Base Sub Vets and families
> travelled to Erie, PA, this past weekend to visit DonJon Shipbuilding, to
> see firsthand the work being done on the COD.
>
> These pictures just cannot convey the immenseness of both the COD and the
> shipyard dry dock.
>
> It is absolutely HUGE !
>
> The COD herself is 312-feet long and the dry dock simply dwarfs it.
>
> I cannot relate how much of a honor, thrill and adventure it was to be
> able to visit the shipyard and see the COD out of water and up on keel
> blocks...
>
> It was hard to comprehend it all even when standing right there in the
> middle of it.
>
> And to be able to stand underneath her... and to be able to examine every
> inch of her hull.
>
> It was almost overwhelming.
>
> https://ka8vit.com/drydock/
>
> 73 - Bill KA8VIT/W8COD
>
>
> ====================================
> Bill Chaikin, KA8VIT
> Chief Radio Operator
> WW2 Submarine USS COD SS-224 (NECO)
> USS COD Amateur Radio Club - W8COD
>
> ka8vit at ka8vit.com
> http://ka8vit.com
> http://www.usscod.org
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