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Photo # NH 51136:  USS L-4 running trials, 1915

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USS L-4 (Submarine # 43, later SS-43), 1916-1922

USS L-4, at 450-ton L-1 class submarine, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in early May 1916, she spent the next year and a half in U.S. Atlantic coast waters. In December 1917 L-4 began a voyage across the Atlantic to the European war zone, passing through the Azores along the way. Following her arrival at Berehaven, Ireland, in late February 1918, she began active patrols against German U-boats operating in the vicinity of southern Ireland. Though she encountered the enemy submarines on two occasions, no damage resulted to either side. Early in 1919, about two months after the Armistice ended most World War I combat operations, L-4 returned to the United States. She served for another three years in the East Coast area before being decommissioned in mid-April 1922. USS L-4 was sold for scrapping at the end of July 1922.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS L-4 (Submarine # 43, later SS-43).

For other images related to this submarine, see:

  • USS L-4 (Submarine # 43, later SS-43) -- Part II.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 51136

    USS L-4
    (Submarine # 43)

    Running trials, 1915.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51137

    USS L-4
    (Submarine # 43)

    Underway in 1918, probably in Bantry Bay, Ireland.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51138

    USS L-4
    (Submarine # 43)

    Underway off Berehaven, Ireland, in 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51139

    USS L-4
    (Submarine # 43)

    Underway off Bantry Bay, Ireland, in 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51140

    USS L-4
    (Submarine # 43) -- in right center background

    Exercising with another submarine off Ireland, in 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51141

    USS L-4
    (Submarine # 43)

    Making a crash dive off the Irish coast, 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     


    For other images related to this submarine, see:

  • USS L-4 (Submarine # 43, later SS-43) -- Part II.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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