USS G-4
USS G-4, ex-Thrasher, during her fitting out at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 October 1912, with shipyard crane barge in the background | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Thrasher |
| Namesake | The thresher shark |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Cost | $441,475.47 (hull and machinery) |
| Yard number | 354 |
| Laid down | 9 July 1910 |
| Launched | 15 August 1912 |
| Commissioned | 22 January 1914 |
| Decommissioned | 5 September 1919 |
| Renamed | G-4 (Submarine No.26), 17 November 1911 |
| Stricken | 13 August 1921 |
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| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 15 April 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | G-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 157 ft 6 in (48.01 m) |
| Beam | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 11 in (3.33 m) |
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| Range | 2,200 nmi (4,100 km; 2,500 mi) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) on surface |
| Test depth | 200 ft (61 m) |
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| Armament | 4 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 bow and 2 stern, 8 torpedoes. |
USS Thrasher/G-4 (SS-26), also known as "Submarine No. 26", was a G-class submarine of the United States Navy (USN). Thrasher was the first ship of the USN to be named for the thresher shark, a shark with a long dorsal tail fin, though she was renamed G-4 prior to being launched.
While the four G-boats were nominally all of a class, they differed enough in significant details that they are sometimes considered to be four unique boats, each in a class by herself.