HMS Odin (N84)

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HMS Odin (N84) was an O class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by HM Dockyard at Chatham in Kent on 23 June 1927, launched on 5 May 1928 and commissioned on 21 December 1929.

She served with the 5th Flotilla at Portsmouth in 1929 and 1930, with the 4th Flotilla at Hong Kong from 1930 until 1939, with the 8th Flotilla at Colombo in Ceylon in 1939 and 1940, and with the 1st Flotilla at Alexandria in Egypt in 1940.

Odin was depth charged by the Italian Freccia class destroyer Strale and the Folgore class destroyer Baleno and sank in the Gulf of Taranto on 14 June 1940.

See HMS Odin for other ships of this name.