USS Boston (CA-69)

42°22′19″N 71°03′16″W / 42.3718110°N 71.0544701°W / 42.3718110; -71.0544701

USS Boston underway in Guantanamo Bay on 10 January 1967
History
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	CAG-1, 4 January 1952 CA-69, 1 May 1968
Stricken	4 January 1974
Identification	Callsign: NAWP Hull number: CA-69
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
Displacement	14,472 long tons (14,704 t) (standard) 17,031 long tons (17,304 t) (max)
Length	673 ft 5 in (205.26 m) oa
Beam	70 ft 10 in (21.59 m)
Draft	20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) (mean) 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m) (max)
Installed power	4 × 615 psi Steam boilers 120,000 shp (89,000 kW)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric geared turbines 4 × screws
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
Armament	3 × triple 8 in (200 mm)/55 caliber guns 6 × dual 5 in (130 mm)/38 caliber anti-aircraft guns 12 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 24 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
Armor	Belt: 4–6 in (100–150 mm) Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) Barbettes: 6–6.3 in (150–160 mm) Turrets: 1.5–8 in (38–203 mm)
Aircraft carried	4 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities	2 × stern catapults
General characteristics (1955)
Armament	2 × triple 8 in (200 mm)/55 caliber guns 5 × dual 5 in (130 mm)/38 caliber anti-aircraft guns 6 × dual 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns 2 × twin-rail Terrier SAM launcher (144 missiles)
Aircraft carried	removed
Aviation facilities	removed

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]