Dates: 1928 - 1940
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.
Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Odin after the god Odin in Norse mythology:
HMS Odin was a Danish third rate captured at the Battle of Copenhagen (1807) and subsequently commissioned into British service
HMS Odin (1846), a paddle powered steam frigate launched in 1846 and used in the Crimean Was in the Baltic theatre.
Odin (N84), launched in 1928, was an O class submarine. She served in World War II and was sunk by Italian ships in the Gulf of Taranto on 13 June 1940.
Odin (J460) was to have been an Algerine-class minesweeper but she was cancelled in 1944.
Odin (S10), launched in 1960, was an Oberon-class submarine. She was scrapped in 1991.
