Dates: 1930 - 1942

HMS Olympus (N35) was an Odin class submarine, a class originally designed for the Royal Australian Navy to cope with long distance patrolling in Pacific waters.

Olympus was built by William Beardmore and Co. at Dalmuir on the Clyde to the same design for the Royal Navy and commissioned on 14 June 1930. Complement: 55.

She served 1931-1939 with the 4th Flotilla, China Station and 1939-1940 with the 8th Flotilla, Colombo. In 1940 she was redeployed to the Mediterranean.

On 29 July 1941 she torpedoed and sank the Italian merchant ship Monteponi.

HMS Olympus was sunk by a mine off Malta in May 1942, with a total of 89 killed from her own crew as well as those from among the survivors of HM Submarines Pandora, P36 and P39, who were taking passage with her to Gibraltar.

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