USS Boston (CA-69)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Boston.
42.3718110°N 71.0544701°W / 42.3718110; -71.0544701
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USS Boston underway in Guantanamo Bay on 10 January 1967 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Boston |
Namesake | Boston |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 30 June 1941 |
Launched | 26 August 1942 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Helen Noonan Tobin |
Commissioned | 30 June 1943 |
Decommissioned | 29 October 1946 |
Recommissioned | 1 November 1955 |
Decommissioned | 5 May 1970 |
Reclassified |
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Stricken | 4 January 1974 |
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Honors and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Scrapped, 28 March 1975 |
Notes | Bell is at Charlestown Navy Yard |
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General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Baltimore-class heavy cruiser Boston-class guided-missile cruiser |
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Length | 673 ft 5 in (205.26 m) oa |
Beam | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 33 kn (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
Range | 10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
Complement | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
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Armor | |
Aircraft carried | 4 × floatplanes |
Aviation facilities | 2 × stern catapults |
General characteristics (1955) | |
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Aircraft carried | removed |
Aviation facilities | removed |
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USS Boston (CA-69/CAG-1), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser and later a Boston-class guided missile cruiser, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts. Boston was launched 26 August 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, sponsored by Mrs Helen Noonan Tobin, wife of the Mayor of Boston, Maurice J. Tobin, and commissioned 30 June 1943.[1]