USS Boston (1825)

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)