Allied Warships

Walrus (SS-437)

Submarine of the Tench class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassTench 
Pennant437 
Built byElectric Boat Co. (Groton, Connecticut, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 1945 
Launched 1946 
Commissioned 
End service 
History

Cancelled 30 June 1946.
Launched in 1946.
Accepted by the U.S.N. 2 October 1946, never commissioned.
Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
Stricken in 1959 and sold to be broken up for scrap.

 

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U. S. Submarines in World War II
Kimmett, Larry and Regis, Margaret


U.S. Submarines Through 1945
Friedman, Norman


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