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USS Boston (1884)

The fifth USS Boston 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 Atlanta as the Atlanta class, in others as the Boston class.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Boston and USS Despatch.

Boston was laid down on 15 November 1883 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania, launched on 4 December 1884, and commissioned on 2 May 1887 at the New York Navy Yard, Captain Francis M. Ramsay in command.[1]

(a.k.a. Dewey Medal)

Battle of Manila Bay Commemorative Medal

(two awards)

Navy Expeditionary Medal

Spanish Campaign Medal

Philippine Campaign Medal

World War I Victory Medal

American Defense Service Medal

American Campaign Medal

World War II Victory Medal

Boston/Despatch earned the following awards in her career spanning six decades:

; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.

Bauer, K. Jack

Burr, Lawrence. US Cruisers 1883–1904: The Birth of the Steel Navy. Oxford: Osprey, 2008.  1-84603-267-9 OCLC 488657946

ISBN

(1984). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-718-6.

Friedman, Norman

Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger (1979). . New York: Mayflower Books. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.

Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905

Gibbons, Tony (2007). The Encyclopedia of Ships. London: Amber Books Ltd.  978-1-905704-43-9. OCLC 516430596.

ISBN

Rentfrow, James C. Home Squadron: The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2014.  1-61251-447-2 OCLC 865711810

ISBN

Spears, John Randolph. A History of the United States Navy. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1908.  3467048

OCLC

The White Squadron. Toledo, Ohio: Woolson Spice Co., 1891.  45112425

OCLC

The White Squadron: Armed Cruisers, U.S.N. New York: International Art Publ. Co, 1800.  271460419

OCLC

The White Squadron of the U S Navy. New York: James Clarke Publisher, 1894.  50490393

OCLC

Naval History and Heritage Command: USS Boston (1887–1946) photos

USS Boston photo gallery at NavSource.org

USS Boston at SpanAmWar.com

37°44′28″N 122°34′59″W / 37.741°N 122.583°W / 37.741; -122.583