This space will be saved for the COB.
Do you have some COB tid-bit's?
Don't be shy .... your COB wasn't. ... Thank God !!!

You see I have a dream.
There was a time, about 1912 - 1914 or so, when the COB,
was a new and unique position. It still is ... unique.
There are not many positions in the Armed Service yet today, that equal the
respect, that the Chief of the Boat receives. I would like to Honor that position
in my small way, by finding out who was the very first COB, what Boat, what year,
who was the Skipper and most important what was the reason, for creating the
position in the first place.

New information added 04-15-1999 ... Thanks to Curt Haggard ETCM(SS)
The Year 1900
First Chief of the Boat ................................. W.H.Reader CGM
First Boat to have COB ...............................  USS Holland SS1
First Skipper to have COB ..........................  LT  H.H. Caldwell

Back in the first days of Submarines, the Chief of the Boat was the executive officer, in
fact, if not in name, for the commanding officer was the only commissioned officer on board.
The original crew of Holland, consisted of five men and one officer as captain.
INFORMATION FROM ALL HANDS OCT.-1983
  The question "the reason for creating the position" may be in the fact that, there
was only one Chief in the crew, hence the name "Chief of the Boat" and so it
remained, even after they started carrying an executive officer.
Send me your ideas, ya throw a thought out on the deck, you never know what will
happen, or even what it will look like, when it comes back .....

GMC W.H.Reader, bottom left, was the submarine service's first COB. MMC B. Borvic
is at right. Middle row (L to R), GM2 C. Gunther, LT H.H. Caldwell, CO of USS Holland SS1 and
GM2 A. Calluhan. Back row (L to R) GM1 H. Wayhap, GM1 O. Swanson, Gunner (CWO) O. Hill and EM2 W.Hall.
Hill, Hall, and Gunther were under instruction and weren't Holland crew members.
(Reprinted from "All Hands" October 1983)