A Submarine in Wisconsin?
Moored along the Manitowoc River, adjacent to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, is the World War II fleet submarine USS COBIA (SS-245). COBIA has local and national significance as an icon of Wisconsin's shipbuilding heritage.

On permanent display since 1986, the COBIA, a Gato-class fleet submarine, serves as a monument not only to herself and the submariners that served aboard her over six war patrols, but also to the twenty-eight fleet submarines like her that were built in Manitiwoc during the course of the war by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company.

Showpiece for a Great Museum
The COBIA is a National Historic Landmark, and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Besides having been painstakingly restored to its wartime condition, the COBIA can boast of having the oldest operating SJ surface search radar in the world, which can still track contacts up to 10 miles away as they transit Lake Michigan.