Editing USS C-4 (section)

==Construction and career==
''C-4'' was laid down by [[Fore River Shipbuilding]] Company in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], under a subcontract from [[Electric Boat]] Company, as '''''Bonita'''''. She was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on 17 June 1909 sponsored by Mrs. J. C. Townsend, and [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 23 November 1909. On 11 July 1910 she collided with [[Submarine tender]] [[USS Castine (PG-6)|USS Castine]] while practicing attack maneuvers, USS Castine was beached near [[North Truro, Massachusetts]]. Castine was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://research.mysticseaport.org/coll/coll001/ |title=Records of the T. A. Scott co. |publisher=mysticseaport.org |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> She was renamed ''C-4'' on 17 November 1911. Assigned first to the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|Atlantic]] Torpedo Fleet, and later to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, ''Bonita'' plied east coast waters until May 1913, when she cleared [[Norfolk, Virginia]] for [[Guantánamo Bay, Cuba|Guantánamo Bay]], Cuba. Her tactical exercises and development operations continued here and from [[Cristóbal, Panama|Cristobal]], [[Panama Canal Zone]], where she reported on 12 December 1913. In August 1917, sailing with two other submarines, she explored the suitability of [[Panama]]nian ports as advance submarine bases. Laid up at [[Coco Solo]] Canal Zone from 12 November 1918, ''C-4'' was decommissioned there on 15 August 1919, and sold on 13 April 1920.