USS C-4

For other ships with the same name, see USS Bonita.

The USS C-4 underway, 1909.
History
Name	USS Bonita
Builder	Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Launched	17 June 1909
Commissioned	23 November 1909
Decommissioned	15 August 1919
Renamed	C-4, 17 November 1911
Fate	Sold for scrap, 13 April 1920
General characteristics
Class and type	C-class submarine
Displacement	238 long tons (242 t) surfaced 275 long tons (279 t) submerged
Length	105 ft 4 in (32.11 m)
Beam	13 ft 11 in (4.24 m)
Draft	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	Craig gasoline engines electric motors 2 × shafts
Speed	10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) surfaced 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) submerged
Complement	15 officers and enlisted
Armament	2 × 18 in (460 mm) bow torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes)

USS C-4 (SS-15) was a C-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, under a subcontract from Electric Boat Company, as Bonita. She was launched on 17 June 1909 sponsored by Mrs. J. C. Townsend, and commissioned on 23 November 1909, Lieutenant F. V. McNair in command. She was renamed C-4 on 17 November 1911.

Service history

Assigned first to the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet, and later to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, Bonita plied east coast waters until May 1913, when she cleared Norfolk, Virginia for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Her tactical exercises and development operations continued here and from Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, where she reported on 12 December 1913. In August 1917, sailing with two other submarines, she explored the suitability of Panamanian ports as advance submarine bases. Laid up at Coco Solo Canal Zone from 12 November 1918, C-4 was decommissioned there on 15 August 1919, and sold on 13 April 1920.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.

External links

• Photo gallery of USS Bonita at NavSource Naval History