USS Boston (1884)
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The fifth USS Boston was a United States Navy protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Atlanta as the Atlanta class
USS Boston in 1891
Boston during speed trials
The two 8-inch, 30-Caliber guns displayed in Hamlin ParkShoreline, Washington, seen in 2020.
Despatch at Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay in 1946.
USS Atlanta (1884)
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USS Atlanta was a protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Boston as the Atlanta class, in others as the Boston cla
USS Boston (1884)
…was a United States Navy protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Atlanta as the Atlanta class, in others as the Boston class. Boston was ordered as one of the steel-hulled "ABCD" ships, the others being the protected cruisers…
USS Atlanta in 1891
6 inch (152 mm) gun on Atlanta.
The forecastle and 8 inch gun on Atlanta