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10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. (six forward, four aft) [7] all guns removed [8] USS Odax (SS-484), a Tench -class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for odax, a brilliantly colored, red and green fish belonging to the family Scaridae, the parrot fishes.
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USS Pompano (SS-181), underway en-route from Mare Island Naval Shipyard On 13 January 1943, the command of Submarine Base Pearl Harbor and Submarine Squadron 4 were separated, due to the demands on each command by war time operations.
He then served as executive officer of the submarine USS Grenadier (SS-525), which during his tour was awarded the Admiral Wright Award for forcing a Soviet Zulu-class missile submarine to surface in 1959. He then was commanding officer of the submarine USS Odax (SS-484) from 1959 to 1961.
A total of 125 U.S. submarines were cancelled during World War II, all but three between 29 July 1944 and 12 August 1945. The exceptions were USS Wahoo (SS-516), USS Unicorn (SS-436), and USS Walrus (SS-437), cancelled 7 January 1946.
Foundered in bad weather in 1863. First submarine of the United States Navy. Intelligent Whale. Experimental submarine built in 1863, acquired by the US Navy in 1869 and abandoned in 1873. DSV-0. Trieste. First submarine which reached the Challenger Deep by Swiss Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960.
Exercise successfully executed. Exercise Strikeback aka Operation Strikeback was a major naval exercise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that took place over a ten-day period in September 1957. As part of a series of exercises to simulate an all-out Soviet attack on NATO, Exercise Strikeback was tasked with two objectives.
This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with N and O. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.