USS Cobia (SS-245)
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cobia (SS/AGSS-245), a Gato-class submarine, is a submarine, formerly of the United States Navy, named for the cobia, a food fish found in warm waters. Cobia (SS-245) was laid down on 17 March 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.. 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 June third, 1944. On June 26, 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...
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