Everything about Uss Boston 1884 totally explained
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Ordered:
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Laid down:
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Launched:
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4 December 1884 |
Commissioned:
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2 May 1887 |
Decommissioned:
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Fate:
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intentionally sunk 8 April 1946 |
| General characteristics |
Displacement:
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3,189 t |
Length:
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283 ft (86 m) |
Beam:
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42 ft (12.8 m)
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Draft:
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17 ft (5.2 m) |
Speed:
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13 knots (24 km/h) |
Complement:
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284 officers and men |
Armament:
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2 × 8-inch (203 mm) guns,
6 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns |
The fifth
USS Boston, a
protected cruiser, was
launched 4 December 1884 by
John Roach and Sons,
Chester, Pennsylvania, and
commissioned 2 May 1887, Captain
Francis M. Ramsay in command.
Boston, being the second cruiser of the New Navy completed, wasn't ready for active service until
1888. She then made a cruise to
Guatemala and
Haiti to protect American citizens. She joined the
Squadron of Evolution 30 September 1889 and cruised to the
Mediterranean and
South America (
7 December 1889 –
29 July 1890), and along the east coast in
1891.
Boston departed
New York 24 October 1891 for the
Pacific, via
Cape Horn, arriving at
San Francisco 2 May 1892. Except for a cruise that observed the overthrow of the
Kingdom of Hawaii (
11 August 1892 –
10 October 1893), she remained on the west coast until laid up at
Mare Island Navy Yard 4 November 1893.
Recommissioned
15 November 1895,
Boston joined the
Asiatic Squadron at
Yokohama,
Japan,
25 February 1896. She remained in the Orient protecting American interests for the next four years and during the
Spanish-American War took part in the
Battle of Manila Bay (
1 May 1898) and the capture of
Manila (
13 August 1898). She remained in the
Philippines assisting in their pacification until
8 June 1899.
Boston returned to San Francisco
9 August 1899 and went out of commission at Mare Island Navy Yard
15 September 1899. She remained out of commission until
11 August 1902 and then rejoined the
Pacific Squadron. During 16–
25 June 1905 she helped represent the Navy at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition at
Portland, Oregon, and between
23 April and
10 May 1906 she helped care for the victims of the
San Francisco earthquake and fire. She went out of commission again at
Puget Sound Navy Yard 10 June 1907.
From
15 June 1911 to September 1916, she served as a training vessel with the
Oregon Naval Militia and was loaned to the
Shipping Board (
24 May 1917 – June
1918). On
18 June 1918, she was recommissioned at Mare Island Navy Yard as a
receiving ship and towed to
Yerba Buena Island,
California, where she served as a receiving ship until 1946. She was renamed
Despatch 9 August 1940, thus freeing her original name for use on the new
heavy cruiser Boston (CA-69). The old ship was reclassified
IX-2,
17 February 1941.
Despatch was towed to sea and sunk off San Francisco
8 April 1946.
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