USS Boston
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Seven ships of the United States Navy
have borne the name Boston, in honor of the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
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have borne the name Boston, in honor of the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
- The , was a gundalowGundalowA gundalow is a type of flat bottom cargo vessel once common in Maine and New England rivers. Up to long, they characteristically employed tidal currents for propulsion, shipping a single lateen sail to harness favorable winds....
launched in 1776 and was burned to avoid capture by the British on 13 October 1776.
- The , was a 24-gun frigate, commissioned in 1777 and captured by the British in 1780.
- The , was a 28-gun frigate that was lost during the War of 1812.
- The , was a 18-gun sloop of war commissioned in 1826 and wrecked in the Bahamas in 1846.
- The , was a protected cruiser commissioned in 1887 and took part in the Spanish-American War.
- The , was a heavy cruiser commissioned 1943 and active in both World War II and the Korean War.
- The , was a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine decommissioned in 1999.