Odin Crest

Early Patrol Submarine

 

Type:
Odin Class


Pennant No.:
84P
84.N
N.84

Laid Down:
23rd July 1927.
H.M. Dockyard, Chatham.

Commissioned:
21st December 1929.
Lt. C.C. Flemming.

Commander:
Sept. 1928
Lt. C.C. Flemming.
May 1930 - Feb. 1931
Lt. Cdr. W.H.D. Friedberger.
Oct. 1931
Cdr. T.M. Taylor.
May 1933 - Jan. 1934
Lt. Cdr. W.C. Thomas.
Apr. 1934 - Feb. 1936
Lt. Cdr. H.V. King.
Apr. 1936
Lt. Cdr. R. McP. Jonas.
Sept. 1937
Lt. M.R.G. Wingfield.
May 1938
Lt. Cdr. C.A. Rowe.
Aug. 1939 - Feb. 1940
Lt. Cdr. W.R. Moir.
Feb. - June 1940
Cdr. K. MacI. Woods.

Complement:
56
5 Officers and 51 Ratings.

Service Career:
1929 - 1930.
Portsmouth.
1930 - 1939.
4th Flotilla, HMS Titania, Hong Kong.
Sept. 1939
4th Flotilla, HMS Medway, Singapore.
1939 - 1940
8th Flotilla, HMS Lucia, Columbo.
1940
1st Flotilla, HMS Medway, Alexandria.
(At Malta in June 1940).

Fate:
Completed four 'War Patrols', she was lost on her fifth patrol.

Sank by the Italian destroyer Strale in the Gulf of Taranto June 1940.

It should be noted that although some boats were attached to H.M.S. Medway at Singapore, they often operated in a detached mode covering the China Station such as Hong Kong and even to the point of patrolling the Siberian Coast.