Allied Warships

Odax (SS-484)

Submarine of the Tench class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Submarine
Class	Tench
Pennant	484
Built by	Portsmouth Navy Yard (Kittery, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	4 Dec 1944
Launched	10 Apr 1945
Commissioned	11 Jul 1945
End service	8 Jul 1972
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.

Commands listed for USS Odax (484)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Francis David Walker, Jr., USN	11 Jul 1945

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Notable events involving Odax include:

4 Sep 1945
USS Odax (Cdr. F.D. Walker, Jr., USN) shifted from the Portsmouth Navy Yard to Newport Rhode Island for torpedo trials.

7 Sep 1945
With her torpedo trials completed, USS Odax (Cdr. F.D. Walker, Jr., USN), shifted from Newport Rhode Island to New London, Connecticut.