HMS G4
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| History | |
|---|---|
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| Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down | 12 October 1914 |
| Launched | 23 October 1915 |
| Commissioned | 3 February 1916 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 27 June 1928 to Cashmore, Newport. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | Surfaced / Submerged: 703 tons / 837 tons |
| Length | 57.5 m |
| Beam | 6.92 m |
| Draught | 4.15 m |
| Propulsion | Twin-shaft, 2 x 800 bhp Vickers diesel, 2 x 840 shp electric motors |
| Speed | Surfaced / Submerged: 14.5 knots (27 km/h) / 10.0 knots |
| Range | 44.14 tons of fuel oil giving 3,160 nm surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h). 95 nm submerged, at 3 knots (6 km/h). |
| Complement | 31 |
| Armament | Torpedoes: 2 x 18" bow tubes, 2 x 18" beam tubes, 1 x 21" stern tube. 10 torpedoes in total. Guns: 1 x 3" 10 cwt. Mk.1 Elswick Quick Fire High Angle {QFHA}, forward. 1 x 12 pdr. 8 cwt. Mk. 1 gun HA mounting, aft. |
HMS G4 was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy from World War I.
War service
Like the rest of her class, G4's role was to patrol the North Sea in search of German U-boats.
After commissioning, she was sent to join 11th Submarine Flotilla at Blyth with Lt-Cdr John Hutchings in command. At some point between 20th August 1916 and 3rd October 1916, she went to Scapa Flow and left there to go to Murmansk (then called Romanov), arriving on 20th October 1916. She left there on 15th November, arriving in Kirkwall five days later.
HMS G4 then spent the rest of the First World War conducting war patrols in the North Sea from Blyth and was there at the end of the war.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.