Matchbox TB-795; Thunderbirds Vehicles; Thunderbird 4

Year of Release: 1992

Piloted by aquanaut Gordon Tracy, Thunderbird 4 is a small yellow-coloured utility submersible for underwater rescue. It is  9 metres (30 ft) long and 3.4 metres (11 ft) wide. This makes it the smallest of the Thunderbirds vehicles, but not the smallest of the Pod Vehicles.

Thunderbird 4 is carried aboard Thunderbird 2, nearly always in Pod 4, although it was once transported in Pod 6 ("Attack of the Alligators"). In the episode "Terror in New York City", the craft is launched by emergency procedure, from the Thunderbird 2 hangar and sliding along the island runway, with the runway's overhang automatically dropping into the sea as Thunderbird 4 approaches it.

This Matchbox was sourced in August 2010 from a private collection