Boston-class cruiser
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The United States Navy's Boston class were the first guided missile cruisers in the world. Both ships in this experimental class were originally Baltimore-class heavy cruisers that had been decommissi
USS Canberra on 9 January 1961
USS Boston (CA-69)
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USS Boston, 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
Boston-class cruiser
…from the Naval Vessel Register, and sold for scrap. Ships in class Ship Name Hull No. Converted at Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate Boston CAG-1 New York Shipbuilding Corporation 30 June 1941 26 August 1942 1 November 1955 5 May 1970 Sold for scrap, 28 March 1975 Canberra CAG-2 3 September…
USS Boston underway in Guantanamo Bay on 10 January 1967
USS Boston firing a Terrier guided missile, August 1956.
Overhead shot of USS Boston (CA-69), in her original configuration before becoming one of the US Navy's first missile cruisers (19 May 1945)
Boston's flag-lowering ceremony