The USS Cod (SS-224) is now a museum at Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of our nation's memorial submarines of the Second World War. It is a Gato class boat launched on March 21, 1943. During the war Cod made seven war patrols and sank over 53,000 tons of enemy shipping. By the summer of 1945 the Japanese had been reduced to using sampans for transport of material to bases still in her hands.

On her seventh patrol in August of 1945 an unusual boarding took place. Clay Blair described the incident briefly in his Silent Victory, (J. B. Lippincot Company, New York, 1975) a chronology of submarine action in World War Two, "Edwin Monroe Westbrook Jr., commanding Cod temporarily lost one of his boarding parties when a Japanese plane drove him under and an escort came along. Later, Hazzard in Blenny found the party and took them aboard." This reference is to be found in more detail in the book, U. S. Submarines, Volume 2, by Henry C. Keats and George C. Farr, Pisces Books, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston Texas, 1991, page 135. The event is described, "During the patrol the U. S. submarine Cod (SS-224) intercepted a large three-masted junk and put a six-man boarding party aboard. The junk was transporting contraband to Singapore, which was still occupied by the Japanese. Before Cod's boarding party could sink the junk and return to the submarine, a Japanese fighter plane arrive and strafed both vessels. Cod dove amid a hail of machine gun slugs. The enemy plane stayed in the area until a Japanese warship arrived. That prevented the submarine from surfacing to check on the boarding crew.

"Cod's radio report of the action was received by four U. S. submarines in the vicinity. The four, including the Blenny (SS-324) joined the search for the missing submariners. Two days later, when the search seemed hopeless., Blenny's crew sighted a junk that matched the description given by Cod's commander. When the submarine pulled alongside, the entire boarding party was found on board, receiving good treatment from the Chinese crew. The junk was spared and her crew were presented with gifts of canned goods and fresh bread. Cod's rescued crewmen returned to their submarine, to a jubilant welcome from their fellow crew members."

After the war Cod served as a Naval Reserve training boat and is currently open to the public. Blenny had a bitter-sweet demise. She was converted into a GUPPY II then GUPPY III, but at the end of her life was sunk off of Ocean City, Maryland with hatches chained open and the hull violated in both torpedo rooms. She currently lies in fifty feet of water and serves as an artificial reef and object of curiosity for scuba divers.