USS C-4 (SS-15)

Career
Launched:	17 June 1909
Commissioned:	23 November 1909
Decommissioned:	15 August 1919
Stricken:
Fate:	sold as scrap 1920
General Characteristics
Displacement:	238 tons surfaced, 275 tons submerged[1]
Length:	105 ft 4 in (32 m)
Beam:	13 ft 11 in (4.2 m)
Draft:	10 ft (30.5 m)
Propulsion:	Craig gasoline engines, electric motors: two shafts
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h) surfaced, 9 knots submerged[2]
Range:
Complement:	15 officers and men
Armament:	2 x 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tube]s, bow (four torpedoes)[2]
Motto:

'USS ''C-4'' (SS-15)' was a ''C'' (''Octopus'')-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.
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 12 December 1913. During August of 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 15 August 1919, and sold on 13 April 1920.
See USS ''Bonita'' for other ships of the same name.

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★ history.navy.mil: USS ''C-4''

★ navsource.org: USS ''Bonita''

★ hazegray.org: USS ''Bonita''