Talk:USS Boston (CA-69)

Disputed

Dates for decomissioning, striking and sale do not agree with previous edit, nor NVR. There's three different sets of dates. --J Clear 00:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Summarizing:

• http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/CA69.htm
  • Decommission Date: ?
  • Stricken Date: November 01 1973
  • sold for scrapping: March 01 1975

• http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b8/boston-vi.htm
  • decommissioned in the early 1970s
  • struck from the Navy list on 1 November 1973.
  • sold for scrapping on 1 March 1975.

• http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/069/04069.htm
  • Decommissioned 5 MAY 1970
  • Stricken 1 APR 1974
  • Sold for scrap 28 MAR 1975

• http://www.ussboston.org/hist/hist7.html
  • decommissioned on May 5, 1970
  • stricken: ?
  • scrapped in 1974.

So the Navy is self-consistent, and the others agree on decommissioning. I've emailed the secretary of ussboston.org; maybe somebody knows for sure. —wwoods 02:32, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Facts:

Decommissioning date for CA-69 was 1309 hours, 29 October 1946 in Everett, Washington. We have the Deck Logs on hand. She was moored starboard side to USS BALTIMORE at the time.

She was again decommissioned as CA-69 on 5 May, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. The last Duty Master-at-Arms being FTM2 Joseph F. Vetre, USN.

CAG-1 (then reclassified CA-69) was sold at auction for $888,888,88 to Southern Scrap Metals of New Orleans, LA. It took them about eighteen months to scrap her. We have corresponded with members of the scrapping crew. She was scrapped in 1975-1976.

I added some material I found on Boston's later history and did not mean to take a position on the decommissioning dates. I am also puzzled about the statement that her armament included 10 × 5"/38 guns, and 12 × 3"/50 guns (76 m). Maybe I am missing something, but I can't see why they would have added more small guns when she was converted to a guided missile cruiser. I did find Internet sources that agreed with what is in the article. However, the photo accompanying the article only seems to show dual 5" mounts. Perhaps you could check on this as well. --agr 03:15, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Conway's gives the 3-inch/50 battery as 8 such weapons. The original secondary battery of 12 5-inch/38 guns was reduced to 10 when the aftermost turrets were removed to make room for the missile installation. The twin 3-inch/50 mountings were one-for-one postwar replacements for the wartime quadruple 40mm Bofors mounts, as the 3-inch caliber was the smallest that could fire a proximity-fuzed antiaircraft shell while still managing a high rate of fire (80 rounds per minute per barrel.)

Boston-Class CAG's were originally designed with eight (8) dual mount 3"/50 cal mountings; six to be be placed in 'tubs' on the 02 level, three on each side, and one mount on each side of the main deck, aft even with Missile Launcher #1. These were numbered Mounts 31 through 38; and the Weapons Designation System "ATEWA" - Automatic Target Evaluation and Weapons Assignment" System, was installed with this full capacity. Mounts 33 & 34, on the 02 level, midshps by the funnel, were never installed. The reason for this is unknow, but believed so as to leave room for the ship's utility boats and captains barge. The after mounts on the main deck, Mounts 37 and 38, were believed to have been installed on the Boston; however concussion from these mounts reportedly had adverse effects upon the electronics in the adjacent missile handling rooms, requiring that Mounts 37 and 38 be removed. The four remaining double 3"/50 Cal Mounts on both Boston and Canberra were Mounts 31, 32, 35, and 36. Note that the Mk 56 Fire Control Directors which served these mounts, along with the 5"/38 Cal were numbered as Directors 3,4,7,& 8 - with Directors 5 & 6, originally planned, never installed. (RJR)

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