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H 4

Built By: Vickers (Canada)
Build Group: H1
Fate: Foundered in the English channel Sept 3 1918 while under tow to be scrapped. She was salvaged and used as a target the following year.
H4 Brindisi 1916
H4 Brindisi 1916

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Commanders
1915: Lieutenant   H E Smyth
1917: Lieutenant   O North
1918: Lieutenant Commander   O North

Launched by Mrs W Pirie (wife of the CO of H1)

1917-1918: Adriatic Squadron. Venice. HMS Adamant, Brindisi

This Submarine was one of a Group of ten H Class submarines ordered in the Emergency War Programme of November 1914 and built (using American supplied components) at the Canadian Vickers Yard at Montreal. Of these Submarines H1 to H4 were commissioned in late May 1915 at Quebec City and then made their way to the Mediterranean escorted by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Calgarian.

Sailed in company with H1, H2 and H3 from St. John's, Newfoundland to Gibraltar with the AMC Calgarian. Each boat was towed for one day to allow maintenance to be carried out.

Events

 11-01-1915   Laid Down
 01-04-1915   Launched
 05-06-1915   Completed
 23-05-1918   Attacked and torpedoed the UB-52, This was the only contribution by the British Adriatic Force to the war effort.
 03-09-1918   Foundered in the English channel while under tow to be scrapped. She was salvaged and used as a target the following year.
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