| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Boston |
| Awarded: | 10 December 1973 |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Corporation |
| Laid down: | 11 August 1978 |
| Launched: | 19 April 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 30 January 1982 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 November 1999 |
| Struck: | 19 November 1999 |
| Motto: | Freedom's Birthplace |
| Fate: | To be disposed of by submarine recycling |
| Badge: | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Los Angeles class submarine |
| Displacement: | 5,779 tons light, 6,150 tons full, 371 tons dead |
| Length: | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | S6G nuclear reactor |
| Complement: | 12 officers, 98 men |
| Armament: | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes MK.48 ADCAP torpedoes Tomahawk Land Attack cruise missile (TLAM) MK60 mines MK67 SLMM mines |
USS Boston (SSN-703), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named for Boston, Massachusetts.
The contract to build Boston was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 10 December 1973 and her keel was laid down on 11 August 1978. She was launched on 19 April 1980 sponsored by Mrs. Edward Hidalgo, and commissioned on 30 January 1982, with Captain Jon M. Barr in command.
In 1998 Boston participated in a UNITAS South America deployment.
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Boston was decommissioned on 19 November 1999 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 19 November 1999. Ex-Boston entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 1 October 2001 and on 19 September 2002 ceased to exist. Her sail and upper rudder were preserved for display at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, New York [1].
Boston was a much-decorated ship. The crew distinguished themselves on numerous occasions by meritorious service and outstanding performance. Awards included the Arleigh Burke Fleet Award and the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award, both of which are presented to one ship in the Pacific and one ship in the Atlantic. Her other awards included:
Boston appears in the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, launching cruise missiles against military airfields inside the Soviet Union. While escorting her damaged sister Providence to safety she is sunk by torpedoes fired from an Alfa class submarine.
