Beckwith Strings

The USS Boston (CA-69/CAG-1), was commissioned by the United States Navy on June 30,1943. She was 673’ 3” in length and had a beam of 70’ 10”. The Boston displaced 13,600 tons and had a maximum speed of 33 knots. During WWII she saw action in at least twenty-four separate raids and invasions across the Pacific including the invasion of Guam, Kwajalein, Majuro, Eniwetok and Palaus and the battles of Leyte Gulf and the Phillipine Seas. In 1946, the Boston was decommissioned and put into the reserves but later converted and recommissioned in 1955 as the USN’s first guided missle cruiser.
In 1968 she was reclassified as a “Heavy Cruiser – Attack” and assumed her orginal CA-69 diesignation. Boston was decommissioned in 1970 and stricken from USN records in 1973 and sold for scrap in 1975.

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