C 4 (I 34)
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | C1 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in April 1922. |
C4 in the company of C12, C13 and others.
Commanders
- 1917: Lieutenant J D A Musters
1918: 6th Flotilla. Portsmouth.
Events
| 25-11-1905 | Laid Down |
| 18-10-1906 | Launched |
| 13-03-1907 | Completed |
| 26-09-1917 | Fired on a German submarine whilst on the surface and on seeing the U-boat disappear into the darkness assumed that she had missed. After the war when all the logs of the U-boats were obtained it was discovered that the attack had hit the U-boat on her starboard quarter and failed to explode. |
| 27-03-1918 | Whilst on the surface charging her batteries, she fired two torpedoes at a U-boat whilst off Beachy Head. The U-boat dived and the assumption was that she had missed. After the war when all the logs of the U-boats were obtained it was discovered that the attack proved partially successful in that the torpedoes hit the U-boat under the conning tower but had failed to explode. |
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