OCEAN CITY — The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum recently made a donation to the USS Cod Submarine Memorial in Cleveland.
Paul Farace and his wife, Teresa, visited in mid-March and selected several artifacts to take back to Cleveland. Along with the pyro locker, other artifacts from the USS Blenny include two crew mess tables, an officer’s state room sink and main exhaust stop valve wheel.
In an effort to divest of some of the artifacts that do not fit the mission, the Museum Society has been trying to find new homes for them. Many of the large items include parts of the USS Blenny, a navy submarine that was sunk off the coast of Ocean City in 1989 to become an artificial reef. The museum made contact with members of the USS Cod Submarine Memorial docked in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cod was a squadron mate of the Blenny in World War II and the Blenny rescued six Cod crewmen in August 1945 when they were stranded in the South China Sea. The Society shipped the name plate of the Blenny and a torpedo igniter stowage unit earlier this year in addition to the items the Faraces transported on their own.