HMS Odin (N84)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Odin.
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History | |
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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 |
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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) |
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Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) |
Complement: | 53-55 officers and men |
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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".
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