Royal Navy — Submarine class
Odin class submarine
Odin class or O class
The class in numbers
- 9 Completed
- 5 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 22 July 1927–1945
- Preceded by
- L class
- Succeeded by
- Parthian-class submarine
- Subclasses
- Capitan O'Brien-class submarine
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,311 long tons (1,332 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,892 long tons (1,922 t)
- Length
- 83.82 m (275 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Complement
- 54
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 16 reloads
- 1 × QF 4 in Mk XII deck gun
- 2 × Lewis machine guns
Roster
Holding 8 of the 9 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Odin (N84) | N84 | 1929 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Olympus (N35) | N35 | 1930 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Orpheus (N46) | N46 | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Osiris (N67) | N67 | 1929 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Oswald | N58 | 1929 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Otus (N92) | N92 | 1929 | Scuttled 1946 |
| HMS Otway | 1927 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| HMS Oxley | 1927 | Sunk 1939 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Odin class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.