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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]].


She launched on 4 December 1884 by [[John Roach & Sons]], and commissioned on 2 May 1887, Captain [[Francis Munroe Ramsay|Francis M. Ramsay]] in command.
==Service==
==Service==
She was launched on 4 December 1884 by [[John Roach & Sons|John Roach]], and commissioned on 2 May 1887, Captain [[Francis Munroe Ramsay|Francis M. Ramsay]] in command.


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Frank Wildes|nick=Frank Wildes|appt=18 November, 1895{{USOfficerReg1896|p. 6}}}}
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Latest revision as of 20:39, 3 November 2015

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

She was launched on 4 December 1884 by John Roach, and commissioned on 2 May 1887, Captain Francis M. Ramsay in command.

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.
  8. ↑ Register of Officers, 1890. p. 6.
  9. ↑ List and Station, July 1898. p. 5.
  10. ↑ Records of Living Officers (7th ed). p. 106.
  11. ↑ Records of Living Officers (7th ed). p. 106.
  12. ↑ Records of Living Officers (7th ed). p. 99.
  13. ↑ Records of Living Officers (7th ed). p. 99.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1903. p. 12.
  15. ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 14.
  16. ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 14.
  17. ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 14.

Bibliography


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