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Submarine of the United States

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Sold to Greece 31 January 1976

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submerged On 29 November 1944, she sank the Japanese Type D submarine , picking up one lone survivor named Sasaki. Scabbardfish completed her patrol at Guam on 20 December 1944. She remained there until 16 January 1945 and then proceeded to Saipan. Upon arrival there, she underwent intensive training in wolfpack tactics. Her third war patrol began on 23 January 1945, when she began patrolling the sea lanes between the Philippine Islands and Ryukyu Islands. In late February 1945, she engaged 12 luggers and a trawler with her deck gun but was forced to submerge by a Japanese plane. She was bombed but suffered no damage. She returned to Saipan on 6 March 1945 and was ordered to return to Pearl Harbor for refitting.

Scabbardfish returned to Guam in late April and underwent voyage repairs by the submarine tender Holland. On 29 April 1945, she departed for a patrol area in the East China Sea. A change of orders assigned her to lifeguard duty, and, on 4 May 1945, she rescued five crewmen from a ditched United States Army Air Forces B 29 Superfortress. She transferred them to the submarine Picuda on 6 May 1945, then moved to the Yellow Sea area. On 17 May 1945, she fired a spread of torpedoes at a small Japanese cargo ship accompanied by two escorts. This proved to be a hunter killer group, and when the torpedoes missed, they subjected Scabbardfish to a grueling four hour depth charge attack. Scabbardfish sustained no serious damage and returned to Guam on 11 June 1945 to be refitted by the submarine tender Apollo.

Scabbardfish began her fifth and last war patrol of World War II on 1 July 1945 with another assignment to the lifeguard duty. Between 25 July and 10 August 1945 she rescued seven pilots. She returned to Saipan on 15 August 1945, the day hostilities with Japan ended.

Scabbardfish subsequently departed Saipan to proceed to Pearl Harbor. She got underway from Pearl Harbor on 6 September 1945 in company with the submarines Redfish, Sea Dog, and Sea Fox under orders which sent her to Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands for antisubmarine training duties. After parting company with the other three submarines on 13 September 1945, she proceeded alone to Eniwetok, which she reached on 15 September 1945 she was decommissioned and placed in reserve.

The Korean War broke out in June 1950, and on 31 January 1951 Based at Pearl Harbor, she conducted one Korean War deployment, from 31 July to 2 December 1952, during which she participated in reconnaissance missions and conducted two war patrols. She remained there until 24 October 1964, when she was again placed in commission, preparatory to transferring her to the government of Greece.

Scabbardfish was officially transferred on loan to Greece on 26 February 1965 and commissioned in the Royal Hellenic Navy as Triaina (S 86). She was stricken from the American Naval Vessel Register on 31 January 1976, and Greece purchased her outright in April 1976. She was decommissioned on 12 January 1979 and stricken from the Greek Navy in 1980, but remained in use as a pier side trainer as late as 1982.