need help to identify....

[Antoine]

If somebody knows the number and name of this balao (not sure of the class too)...It seems to begin with a 4##.

Thanks !

[novagator]

Looks like 451

Looks like 451

[anonymous]

This appears to be a

This appears to be a Tench class fleetboat as they started at 417(SS Tench). There were only 31 completed before the contract for construction was canceled.The number on the hull seems to be 451 but there are no 450's used in the tench class. After blowing up the picture it could be either the SS481 Requin or the SS484 Odax. The odd sail is the Guppy conversion.
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[mkeatingss]

She's definitely a Tench. The

She's definitely a Tench. The exhaust (no number 2 engine exhaust) indicates a Guppy II. She, also, retains the fleet bow. She's probably Odax (484) or Pomodon (486). I don't know her, on sight, so it'll probably take some one who served on her, to pin down which.
Mike

[jim kerswell]

According to the photos at

According to the photos at this site]http://www.navsource.org/archives/subidx.htm[/url]

Both the Odax and Pomodon had the curved Guppy-type bow. If someone wanted to do some more research at this site they might be able to come up with an answer, although photos of many of the Guppies in their later operational lives are lacking.

It would be helpful if a list existed enumerating which boats received which modifications. Then you could narrow it down to a Fleet-snorkle that was later modified with a North Atlantic sail.

JK

[jdlockh]

She is the SS481 Requin.

She is the SS481 Requin. Looks like she is now a museum in Pittsburgh. [img]http://www.subcommittee.com/SubComm/images/C:\Documents and Settings
CW\My Documents\My Pictures\requin.jpg[/img]ship's page

[Antoine]

thanks !

thanks !

[mkeatingss]

Dead on, Jim. That picture

Dead on, Jim. That picture is on Requin's page at Navsource.
Mike

[Scale Shipyard / WLU]

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[Antoine]

Lee

I think its definitively

Lee

I think its definitively the Requin. The 484 or 486 had a guppy bow.
The sub on the pic shows a fleet bow with a modern guppy sail, mod that would have been done after a possible modification of the bow. On this sub the bow remained the same, so it is the Requin (following the data I gathered on the 481)
Thanks again guys for the info !