USS R-4, a 569-ton R-1 class submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in late March 1919. She served along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean before passing through the Panama Canal to the Pacific in late May 1921. R-4 was based at San Pedro, California, and at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, until early 1931, when she returned to the Atlantic for a ten-year tour as a training submarine.
In May 1941, with the Second World War crisis increasingly threatening, R-4 was sent south for operational patrol duty in the waters between Florida and Cuba. For the next four years she was employed there and off Mexico, both in active defense against German U-boats and as a unit of the Fleet Sonar School. In June 1945, with the fighting over in Europe, she went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to be decommissioned. USS R-4 was stricken from the list of Naval vessels in July and sold for scrapping in January 1946.
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Page made 27 January 2006