HMS Odin (N84)
Appearance
Odin underway off Hong Kong
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History | |
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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 |
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Length | 283 ft 6 in (86.41 m) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draught | 16 ft 1 in (4.90 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | |
Test depth | 300 ft (91 m) |
Complement | 53-55 officers and men |
Armament |
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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[1] and commissioned on 21 December 1929. The name Odin refers to the 74-gun, Danish man-of-war surrendered to the British in 1807.[2]
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.
References
- ^ Chatham submarines
- ^ "The Illustrated London News - May 12, 1928".