Encyclopedia > USS Boston (1825)

  Article Content

USS Boston (1825)

The fourth USS Boston was an 18-gun sloop of war[?], launched 15 October 1825 by Boston Navy Yard and commissioned the following year, Master Commandant B. V. Hoffman[?] in command.

Boston served on the Brazil Station[?] 1826-1829 and the Mediterranean Station[?] 1830-1832. She was then laid up at Boston Navy Yard until joining the West Indies Squadron[?] in [[1836]. Except for two short periods in ordinary at New York Navy Yard she served continuously for the next ten years. Boston' cruised on the West Indies (1836-39), East Indies (1841-43), and Brazil (1843-46) Stations, returning to the United States in 1846. She was then ordered to join Commodore D. Conner[?]'s Home Squadron[?] blockading the Mexican east coast. While enroute to her new station Boston was wrecked on Eleuthera Island[?], Bahamas, during a squall 15 November 1846. Although the sloop was a total loss, all hands were saved.

(Slp: T. 700; l. 127'; b. 33'9"; dr. 16'; s. 11 k.; cpl. 125; a. 20 24-pdr. S. B.; cl. Boston)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Rameses

...     Contents RamsesRedirected from Rameses Ramses, also spelled Rameses, is the name of several Egyptian pharaohs: ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 32.3 ms