USS G-4 (SS-26)

USS G-4 (SS-26)

USS G-4 (SS-26) was a G-class submarine of the United States Navy. 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.

G-4 was named Thrasher when her keel was laid down on 9 July 1910 by William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, making her the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the thrasher, a thrushlike bird known as a singer and mimic. She was renamed G-4 on 17 November 1911, launched on 15 August 1912 sponsored by Ms. Grace Anna Taussig, and commissioned in the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 22 January 1914, Lieutenant L. D. McWhorter in command.