Allied Warships

Odax (SS-484)

Submarine of the Tench class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassTench 
Pennant484 
Built byPortsmouth Navy Yard (Kittery, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down4 Dec 1944 
Launched10 Apr 1945 
Commissioned11 Jul 1945 
End service8 Jul 1972 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned, stricken and transferred to Brazil being renamed Rio De Janeiro (S-13) on 8 July 1972.
Rio de Janeiro was decommissioned in 1978 and scrapped in 1981.

 

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1Cdr. Francis David Walker, USN11 Jul 1945???

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Media links


U. S. Submarines in World War II

Kimmett, Larry and Regis, Margaret


U.S. Submarines Through 1945

Friedman, Norman

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