USS Cobia (SS-245)

USS Cobia

History
Namesake:	Cobia
Ordered:	9 September 1940
Builder:	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08245.htm
Laid down:	17 March 1943
Launched:	28 November 1943
Sponsored by:	Mrs. C. W. Magruder
Commissioned:	29 March 1944
Decommissioned:	22 May 1946
Recommissioned:	6 July 1951
Decommissioned:	19 March 1954
Struck:	1 July 1970
Status:	Memorial at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 17 August 1970
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,490 long tons (1,510 t) surfaced 2,070 long tons (2,100 t) submerged
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	17 ft (5.2 m) maximum
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears two propellers 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:	21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours at 2 kn (4 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	300 ft (90 m)
Complement:	10 officers, 70 enlisted
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 forward, 4 aft 24 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
USS Cobia (submarine)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Built	1943
Architect	Electric Boat Co.
NRHP Reference #	86000087
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	14 January 1986
Designated NHL	14 January 1986

USS Cobia (SS/AGSS-245) is a Gato-class submarine, formerly of the United States Navy, named for the cobia.

Cobia (SS-245) was laid down on 17 March 1943 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 28 November 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. C. W. Magruder), and commissioned on 29 March 1944, Lieutenant Commander Albert L. Becker in command.

Cobia reached Pearl Harbor from New London 3 June 1944. On 26 June, she put to sea on her first war patrol, bound for the Bonin Islands. On 13 July, 17 July, and 18 July she sank Japanese freighters. The last, Nisshu Maru, was a troop transport carrying a Japanese tank regiment to Iwo Jima. Even though casualties were low in the 26th Tank Regiment, all of the regiment's 28 tanks went to the bottom of the sea. It would be December before 22 replacements were provided.

On 20 July Cobia sank three small armed ships in a running gun battle. One of them rammed Cobia, causing minor damage, but the submarine continued her mission, sinking a converted yacht of 500 tons on 5 August. A survivor from the yacht was rescued as Cobia's first prisoner of war.

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