August 27, 1919, S-4 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME., about to be launched. She was sponsored by Mrs. Herbert S. Howard, seen here with Admiral Clifford J Boush, Commandant of the Portsmouth yard. Also notable at the launching was the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and later President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Photo from the Portsmouth Navy Yard Industrial Department newsletter "Life Buoy", 1919.
