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Name: W 4
Type: Submarine
Keel: 20/03/1914
Launched: 11/09/1915
Completed: 27/06/1916
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 871
Dimensions: 490disp subm, 321disp surf, 149.9 x 17.9ft
Engines: 2 x oil engines, 8cyl, 2 x electric motors, 740hp
Engines by: Lambert-Schneider
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 8.0knots subm, 13.0knots surf
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 3ins gun, 6 x 18ins torpedoes
History:
06/1916 British Royal Navy
23/08/1916 Transferred to the Italian Navy
04/08/1917 Sank
Comments: The Class was known as the Armstrong-Laubeuf type, having
been built in the UK for the Italian Navy
04/08/1917: Mined and sunk 150miles west of Bari. 23 crew lost