U.S.S. Boston, CA-69
- Item sets
- World War II Navy Cruise Books
- Title
- U.S.S. Boston, CA-69
- Creator
- United States. Navy
- Publisher
- [San Angelo, Tex.] : [Newsfoto Publishing Company], [1945]
- Date
- 1945
- Description
- From "The Story of the U.S.S. Boston" by Henry G. Leader, SP (X) 3/C: Built for speed, maneuverability and tremendous fire power, the USS Boston is the second ship of the Baltimore class. Ordered July 1, 1940 prior to the outbreak of the war, her keel was laid June 30, 1941 in the Fore river yard, Quincy, Massachusetts by the Bethlehem Steel Company. On August 26, 1942 Mrs. Maurice J. Tobin, wife of the Honorable Maurice J. Tobin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sponsored the launching, and on June 30th of the following year, the ship's ensign fluttered in a gentle breeze as she was officially commissioned and accepted by her first commanding officer, Captain John H. Carson, USN. Slipping smoothly through Atlantic waters, the Boston began her maiden voyage on August 13, 1943 en route to the Gulf of Paria, between Trinidad and Venezuela, for the shakedown cruise designed to accustom her crew to the sea and enable officers to detect any possible wrinkles in her makeup. A month later the Boston returned to her home port. a fighting ship with her crew well trained to fight the enemy. On the record of her engineering trial, she was established as one of the fastest heavy ships in the fleet; on the record of her gunnery exercises she was established as a good gunnery ship. After a few more weeks in the port of Boston and some trial runs off Rockland, Maine, the USS Boston set out on November 18 to fulfill the job for which she was designed and built-the defeat of this country's enemy in the Pacific. After passing through the Panama Canal, followed by a two day lay-over in San Francisco, she arrived at Pearl Harbor on the eve of the second anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack. Six weeks were spent in Pearl Harbor waters engaging in more of the exercises that are so essential to the maintenance of the fighting qualities of a First Class Warship.
- Subject
- United States. Navy--Cruise, 1943-1945
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories
- Format
- 150 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations, prtraits ; 21 x 27 cm
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Note
- Includes the ship's dog, and views of Hiroshima after the bombing
- Includes the ship's dog, and views of Hiroshima after the bombing
- Rights
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