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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Boston''''' was one of two [[Atlanta Class Cruiser (1884)|''Atlanta'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Boston''''' was one of two [[Atlanta Class Cruiser (1884)|''Atlanta'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].

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U.S.S. Boston (1884)
Hull Number: IX-2 (1941)[1]
Builder: John Roach[2]
Ordered: Act of 3 March, 1883[3]
Laid down: 15 November, 1883[4]
Launched: 4 December, 1884[5]
Commissioned: 2 May, 1887[6]
Sunk: 8 April, 1946[7]
Fate: Scuttled off San Francisco

U.S.S. Boston was one of two Atlanta Class protected cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 150.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  7. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.

Bibliography


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