USS Odum
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USS Odum (APD-71), ex-DE-670, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946.
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USS Odum | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Odum |
Namesake | Fireman First Class Joseph R. Odum (1913–1942), U.S. Navy Silver Star recipient |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 15 October 1943 |
Launched | 19 January 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Katherine Odum |
Reclassified | APD-71, 27 June 1944 |
Commissioned | 12 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 15 November 1946 |
Stricken | 1 November 1966[1] or 1 December 1966[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Chile |
History | |
Chile | |
Name | Serrano (APD-26) |
Acquired | 15 November 1966 |
Stricken | 1984 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Charles Lawrence-class high-speed transport |
Displacement | 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) overall |
Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) maximum |
Installed power | 12,000 shaft horsepower (16 megawatts) |
Propulsion | Two boilers; two GE steam turbines (turbo-electric transmission) |
Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Range | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Troops | 162 |
Complement | 186 |
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