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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 6:49:22 AM   
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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 6:50:54 AM   
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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 6:53:20 AM   
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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 6:54:52 AM   
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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 6:57:00 AM   
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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 7:59:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow!! She looks like she's in excellent shape compared to the USS Drum and other ship museums I've visited. Thanks for sharing the pictures AU.

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 5:21:21 PM   
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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 5:28:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Great Pics! I live in Chicago and have toured the U-505, but never a US Boat!

The contrast in quarters is very noticeable. Though not a luxury liner, she is compared to the U-505.

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 5:55:34 PM   
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A close-up of my hat, for those in the know....






You had to get started with the football things, didn't you... Two months until football starts and we're all enjoining the peace and the quiet interlude when otherwise sane folks aren't yelling "War Damn Eagle" and "I'm Prowd Too Bea uh Klempsun Tyger" and so forth. Moderation, man, moderation!

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 6:13:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Neat. This boat appears to be in good condition. My uneducated eyes couldn't spot any post-1945 gear onboard.

In the late forties, the USN began a series of upgrades to incorporate advanced tech into the submarine fleet, the "GUPPY" programs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Underwater_Propulsion_Power_Program

Are there any submarine museums based on a sub from this era?

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 7:48:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, great pics....don't know if your still there but if you are and have a day or two o kill..road trip to Superior. The Richard Bong museum. It's about 4-5 hour drive through northrn Wisconsin. One of these days I'll motivate and post mine.




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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 8:22:25 PM   
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Great Pics! I live in Chicago and have toured the U-505, but never a US Boat!

The contrast in quarters is very noticeable. Though not a luxury liner, she is compared to the U-505.


Tour a US Fleet Sub you will be shocked at the size difference, particularly the interior space. I've seen U-505 and the USS Drum in Mobile and the USS Cavalla in Galveston.

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/26/2008 8:25:27 PM   
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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/27/2008 6:34:08 AM   
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Neat. This boat appears to be in good condition. My uneducated eyes couldn't spot any post-1945 gear onboard.

In the late forties, the USN began a series of upgrades to incorporate advanced tech into the submarine fleet, the "GUPPY" programs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Underwater_Propulsion_Power_Program

Are there any submarine museums based on a sub from this era?



Except for the SCPO uniform. The Navy didn't have any enlisted rank higher than CPO until 1958.

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/27/2008 3:00:58 PM   
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A view of the forward torpedo room.





How did they manage to sleep in those beds? Theres barely enough room to breath in there. They propably had special training just for the purpose of getting into bed/out of it.

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/27/2008 3:04:00 PM   
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A view of the forward torpedo room.





How did they manage to sleep in those beds? Theres barely enough room to breath in there. They propably had special training just for the purpose of getting into bed/out of it.




If you are tired enough, you can sleep about anywhere...

i had a friend who used to sleep on a steel I-beam at his job on occasion (high up enough that if he had rolled over it would have been probably fatal... )

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/27/2008 4:46:39 PM   
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Neat. This boat appears to be in good condition. My uneducated eyes couldn't spot any post-1945 gear onboard.

In the late forties, the USN began a series of upgrades to incorporate advanced tech into the submarine fleet, the "GUPPY" programs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Underwater_Propulsion_Power_Program

Are there any submarine museums based on a sub from this era?



Except for the SCPO uniform. The Navy didn't have any enlisted rank higher than CPO until 1958.

Chez


I did not know that. Thanks!

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/27/2008 5:08:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Why did they need rails on their bunks?  Like they have room to turn over and fall off?  No way!  These guys must have been midgets.  I do know one former WWII sub veteran - he was an officer on the Paddle.  He is quite small.  After the war he went to lawschool and was a judge in Rome, GA for many years.  He's now in his 80s and quite a gentleman. 

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/27/2008 8:29:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		CR... when on the surface a sub can roll quite nastily. Having a rail on the bunk can prevent a crewman from serious injury in a storm...of course, in this case it looks like it's just keeping the mattresses from falling out of the bunk...

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RE: USS Cobia (SS-245) - 6/27/2008 8:32:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		Visited that sub about 3 years ago. Live about an hour south in a suburb of Milwaukee... Its a great little museum. (there is a museum plus the sub). I think that sub is there because it was one of the subs made there.

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