| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 10 December 1973 |
| Laid down: | 11 August 1978 |
| Launched: | 19 April 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 30 January 1982 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 November 1999 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | 19 November 1999 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5779 tons light, 6150 tons full, 371 tons dead |
| Length: | 110.3 meters (362 feet) |
| Beam: | 10 meters (33 feet) |
| Draft: | 9.7 meters (32 feet) |
| Propulsion: | one S6G reactor |
| Complement: | 12 officers, 98 men |
| Armament: | 4x 21-inch Horizontal Launch Tubes
MK-48 ADCAP Torpedoes |
| Motto: | Freedom's Birthplace |
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In 1998 the Boston participated in a UNITAS South America deployment.
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 & Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, New York.