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Uss L-4 (Ss-43) | style="text-align: center" colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| USN Jack | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 23 March 1914 | | aunched: | 3 April 1915 | | ommissioned: | 4 May 1916 | | ecommissioned: | 14 April 1922 | | ate: | sold for scrapping | | tricken: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; background: navy;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 450 tons surfaced, 548 tons submerged | | ength: | 167 feet 5 inches | | eam: | 17 feet 5 inches | | raft: | 13 feet 7 inches | | ropulsion: | | | peed: | 14 knots surfaced, 10.5 knots submerged | | ange: | | | omplement: | 28 officers and men | | rmament: | one three-inch gun, four 18-inch torpedo tubes | | otto: | USS L-4 (SS-43) was an L-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 23 March 1914 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 3 April 1915 sponsored by Mrs. Stephen A. Gardner, and commissioned on 4 May 1916 with Lieutenant (junior grade) Lewis Hancock, Jr., in command. Assigned to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, L-4 operated along the Atlantic coast, assisting in the development of new techniques in undersea warfare until April 1917. Following the declaration of war on the Central Powers, the United States Navy dispatched submarines to European waters to protect the Allied shipping lanes. After a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overhaul, L-4 departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 4 December and steamed for the Azores. She departed Ponta Delgada on 19 January 1918, arriving for patrol operations at Berehaven, Ireland, on 27 January. While on patrol during April, L-4 twice encountered enemy U-boats in British waters and chased them from the paths of friendly convoys. Based at Berehaven for the rest of the war, U.S. submarines protected Allied shipping from U-boat attacks. Following the Armistice with Germany, L-4 departed Portland, England, on 3 January 1919 for the United States, arriving Philadelphia 1 February. For the next two years, the submarine operated along the East Coast performing experiments developing the tactics of undersea warfare. L-4 decommissioned at Philadelphia 14 April 1922 and was sold to Pottstown Steel Company in Douglasville, Pennsylvania, on 31 July 1922 for scrapping. References L-4
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