USS Boston (1777)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Boston.
The second USS Boston was a 24-gun frigate, launched 3 June 1776 by Stephen and Ralph Cross, Newburyport, Massachusetts, and completed the following year. In American service she captured a number of British vessels. The British captured Boston at the fall of Charleston, South Carolina, renamed her HMS Charlestown (HMS Charleston or Charles Town), and took her into service. She was engaged in one major fight with two French frigates, which she survived and which saved the convoy she was protecting. The British sold Charlestown in 1783, immediately after the end of the war.
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United States | |
Name | Boston |
Namesake | Boston, Massachusetts |
Builder | Stephen and Ralph Cross, Newburyport, Massachusetts |
Launched | 3 June 1776 |
Fate | Captured 12 May 1780 |
Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Charlestown |
Acquired | 12 May 1780 by capture |
Fate | Sold 1783 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Frigate |
Tonnage | 514 |
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Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 3 in (3.1 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Speed | 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) |
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