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Photo # NH 92096:  USS C-4 underway, circa 1912-1914

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USS Bonita (Submarine # 15), 1909-1920.
Renamed C-4 in 1911

USS Bonita, a 238-ton Octopus ("C") class submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in November 1909. She was employed along the U.S. East Coast for the next three years, and was renamed C-4 in November 1911. In May 1913 the submarine went to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to begin several years of service in tropical waters. Her operating area was changed to the Panama Canal Zone in December 1913, and she remained in that area until the end of her career. USS C-4 was decommissioned at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, in August 1919 and sold in April 1920.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Bonita (Submarine # 15), which was renamed C-4 in 1911.


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Photo #: NH 79743

USS Bonita
(Submarine # 15, later renamed C-4)

Underway, circa 1909.
The presence of several civilians on board indicates that the photograph was taken during builder's trials.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 500 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 92096

USS C-4
(Submarine # 15, originally named Bonita)

Underway in harbor, circa 1912-1914.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 570 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 85090

First Division, Atlantic Submarine Flotilla


With their crews posed on deck, while moored alongside their tender, USS Severn, circa 1913.
These submarines are (from left to right): C-4 (Submarine # 15); unidentified submarine, possibly "D" class; C-5 (Submarine # 16); and C-2 (Submarine # 13).

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 85276

C-Class submarines in the Gatun Locks, Panama Canal, circa 1914


Photograph printed on a color-tinted postal card, prior to World War I.
The submarine present include (in no particular order): USS C-1 (submarine # 9); USS C-2 (submarine # 13); USS C-3 (submarine # 14); USS C-4 (submarine # 15); and USS C-5 (submarine # 163).
Security concerns about this photograph may have prompted the official correspondence reproduced in Photo # NH 85276 (extended caption).

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1975

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 520 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99004

USS Snapper
(Submarine # 16);
USS Narwhal (Submarine # 17);
USS Tarpon (Submarine # 14); and
USS Bonita (Submarine # 15);
(listed from left to right)

Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 125KB; 740 x 625 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99005

USS Bonita
(Submarine # 15);
USS Tarpon (Submarine # 14);
USS Narwhal (Submarine # 17); and
USS Snapper (Submarine # 16);
(listed from left to right)

Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909.
USS North Dakota (Battleship # 29) is in the right background, also fitting out.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 630 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 53776

U.S. Navy submarines in port, circa 1909


Possibly photographed at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, these submarines are (from left to right): Tarpon (Submarine # 14); either Narwhal (Submarine # 17) or Salmon (Submarine # 19); Snapper (Submarine # 16); Stingray (Submarine # 13); Bonita (Submarine # 15); and Grayling (Submarine # 18).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 


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