HMS Odin (N84)
 Odin underway off Hong Kong | |
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Odin class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Odin |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 23 June 1927 |
| Launched: | 5 May 1928 |
| Commissioned: | 21 December 1929 |
| Fate: | Sunk on 13 June 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,781 tons surfaced 2,038 tons submerged |
| Length: | 283 ft 6 in (86.41 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft 1 in (4.90 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric 2 × diesel engines, 4,600 hp 2 × electric motors, 350 hp 2 screws |
| Speed: | 17.5 kn (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h) surfaced 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 8,400 nmi (15,600 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) surfaced 70 nmi (130 km) at 4 kn (4.6 mph; 7.4 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) |
| Complement: | 53-55 officers and men |
| Armament: | • 8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 16 reloads • 2 × Lewis machine guns |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Odin.
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[1] and commissioned on 21 December 1929.
She served with the 5th Flotilla at Portsmouth in 1929-1930, with the 4th Flotilla at Hong Kong from 1930-1939, with the 8th Flotilla at Colombo in Ceylon in 1939-1940, and with the 1st Flotilla at Alexandria in Egypt in 1940.
Odin was depth charged and later rammed on surface by the Italian Freccia-class destroyer Strale and the Folgore-class destroyer Baleno and sank in the Gulf of Taranto on 13 June 1940.
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Coordinates: 39°30′0″N 17°30′0″E / 39.50000°N 17.50000°E
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