[ARC5] OT - USS COD Dry Dock pictures

[Mark K3MSB]

Hi Bill

All I can say is "wow" !!   Thanks for sharing those pictures.

I was looking at the scale of the people in relation to the ship on the
second page of photos, top row middle picture.   It looks like the Cod had
two decks?

https://usscod.org/tour2.html  Shows a cut-away of the Cod, and it does
look like two decks, but the photos seem to show some of those rooms are
really one big area with a deck passing through the center?

Mark K3MSB



On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:21 PM 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
>
>
> ====================================
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> Chief Radio Operator
> WW2 Submarine USS COD SS-224 (NECO)
> USS COD Amateur Radio Club - W8COD
>
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