I like how Paul is more concerned about the camera vs Evan's swimming abilities, pretty funny.

Another beauty of working on a decommissioned US Navy ship is the discovery Ryan over on USS New Jersey is constantly finding new to him item's, great score on the prop key. 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

I was a Sea Cadet back in the late 80's and drilled at the reserve center next to the Cod. I even worked a couple summers there painting, cleaning, and even giving some tours after learning from the old salts. Paul is a great guy and glad he's still keeping her looking great!

@paulfarace9595

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words shipmate!

Thank you for sharing this...very interesting 😊

Very interesting. Didn't know what the lockers looked like or where they were located.

Finally. Never could find an explanation for those "hatches" on the front and back of the conning tower in the schematics.

a submersible gunboat, awesome!

I once read a WW2 submariners description of a fleet boats' surface firepower as "fearsome".

Attention to detail is important. LOVE the differentiation between a lectern and a podium as almost everyone ,everywhere ,gets that wrong. Details MAKE up the truth.

One of my duty stations was at Mare Island navy yard back in the early 1980's. I only found out decades later that the battleship USS California was built at this yard. It was the only battleship that this yard ever built. Your mentioning that the gun/ammo lockers were added in 44/45 at the yard brought back good memories of being stationed there. PJ

Looks like the crew feedback were acted on quickly during the war especially when it was effective, quick & easy...with the exception of the Mark 14 of course.

Careful, I bet there could be snakes in those lockers

Makes me grateful to have served on a Tico Cruiser. CG-51

Great information! I always appreciate learning more! Nice view of the new Sherwin Williams in the background.

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

Sherwin Williams is a corporate supporter of USS Cod Submarine Memorial!❤❤❤

Great video! Happy I visited this summer!

❤When in doubt, it's a special forces locker😮🎉

Interesting.

Thanks for the great detailed info!

I always wondered what special engineering a deck gun needed since it was constantly soaked/submerged with salt water- even moreso than surface ships. There must have been some corrosion issues they had to keep a closer eye on.

@johnbeauvais3159

8 ай бұрын

There’s period footage of the 4”/50 and 5”/25 you can find on KZread, there was a good bit of surface rust on the 4” and the gears of the 5” mount were packed with cosmoline to protect them

@DABrock-author

8 ай бұрын

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the 5”/25 submarine guns had chrome-lined bores to deal with corrosion. For the outside of the gun, it would be like @johnbeauvais3159 said, liberal applications of paint and grease.

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

The early guns had pressure and water proof muzzle and breech covers that slowed down preparations for firing. Thev5 inch didn't but instead was made from corrosion resistant alloys. The 40mm guns were just constantly being maintained and packed with grease

@tomtrenter3208

8 ай бұрын

Don't forget that guns on surface ships get wet inside and out too. They all need lots of PMS.

Excellent, I like my humour dry . lol. Good info about lectern and podium ….i never knew 👍😥 nice to get educated .

@rah1420usa

8 ай бұрын

My public speaking teacher always said that you can tell the difference because you STAND on a PODiium. If you leaned on a podium you’d be doing push-ups.

If I’m asking this, I’m sure a million others have asked this, too. Given the assumption that subs of that era spent more time on the surface than below, how’d a boat like that handle foul weather? Also, sorry Evan, but expensive pieces of equipment are lost forever if they go into the sink. If sure you’d float long enough for them to throw you a lifeline!

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

The fleet sub was relatively good in a seaway and if things were too bad you might be able to dive.

So the *non* ready service large shells - where and how many were they? I was about to say that the crew must not have enjoyed having all of them inboard, but then again, they *are* sleeping on the torpedoes, so what do I know.

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

There would be at least 10 rounds in deck lockers for the main weapon and about 24 rounds for the 40mm. A few hundred rounds for the machines guns were topside in lockers. The rest were in the magazine below.

Happy Thanksgiving brother.

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Merry Thanksgiving. Nice meeting and speaking with you underneath BB35 last month!

@paulfarace9595

6 ай бұрын

I think you met Rich Obratil of iyr crew. I'd love to walk under Texas❤!

Very interesting. I used to a regular visitor to u.s.s ling in nj before she suffered her sad fate. I have always wanted to know where the small arms locker was located on ww2 fleet sub. Maybe you can let me know.

Is that the Cod's horn to the right of the lectern? If so, is it still functional?

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

Yes it's our horn and it was restored for the trip in 2021 to drydock. It's LOUD! There's a video of it a year ago on our Facebook page.

If you're in fight and need your ammo a.s.a.p. but in the locker is the admirals lectern...

Is that the ships horn behind the lectern?

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

Yes

How much .50 caliber ammo did they carry on a war patrol in 1945?

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

Thousands of rounds.

I’m sorry what was the hinged cutout over the 40mm spare barrel locker for?

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

Access to the main air induction valve.

@johnbeauvais3159

8 ай бұрын

@@paulfarace9595 Oh thank you! Was that standard on the Gato boats or was it dependent on what yard made them?

Where did they keep the Small Arms?

@steven.h0629

8 ай бұрын

T Rex 👍😎✊

Trivia for.you Paul, what is the little silvery tube inside the cage just above the horn @8:38? Hint: there is another one just like it at the aft end of the cigarette deck and 2 more, one on either side of the conning tower just below the walking deck. There were 2 more but they were out of sight, 1 down by the keel below the conning tower and the other one up on top of the shears.

@paulfarace9595

6 ай бұрын

You're talking about our blastphone transducers ... I had them placed everywhere but the keel (installed in 1995). Technically I should remove them if i want to remain faithful to our late 1953 focus date. They were removed inp when we installed them we didn't know that!😮 Sorry for the late reply I just noticed your question.

@tomtrenter3208

6 ай бұрын

@@paulfarace9595 I asked our instructors at Fleet Sonar School in 1973 how bubbleheads could tell where depth charges were going off but no one knew, not even bubblehead ST's. In about 2015ish or so I took the time and paid attention to the little magnetostrictive transducers and their locations on USS Silversides and had a very strong suspicion I had found my answer. Confirmation came when I got to the conning tower and right there on top of the supersonic sonar stack was the proof after 42 years of head scratching. Out of curiosity how did you know about the depth charge indicator? It's not something most folks are aware of.

@tomtrenter3208

6 ай бұрын

@@paulfarace9595 More trivia for you Paul: how was the info given by the depth charge indicator used?

Very interesting! 😃

why dose the skull have a torp. going through it and who came up with the layout or did it start out as salor art and have you found any on COD to date

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

The emblem of an enemy skull pierced by a Vod torpedo was created by crewman JOHNNY BAKER on the last patrol.

How many side arms did a US sub have?

@paulfarace9595

6 ай бұрын

Lots... but it varied by boat. Suffto saybyou didn't want to get into a gun battle with a WWII-era fleet submarine!

Where were the small arms stored?

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

In the small arms locker and magazine below.

@MK0272

8 ай бұрын

​@@paulfarace9595Right, I'd like to see a video showing it.

Dangerous to take on a junk They carried MGs too

@paulfarace9595

8 ай бұрын

Most junks were civilian and were forced to carry supplies for the Japanese. A few that carried high-value cargoes might have a soldier or two with a rifle. They stayed aboard when the crew rowed away in their little rowboat and were shot up and burned 🔥 with the junk.

@tomhenry897

8 ай бұрын

As Japanese cargo ships traveled alone as we sank more they got more guns Don’t need to be a soldier to fire an MG

very cool