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• The first Boston was a gondola built at Skenesborough (present day Whitehall), New York, in 1776, mounting one 18-pounder and 2 12-pounder guns, and with a crew of 45. She took part in the Battle of Lake Champlain that delayed the British invasion and was burned to avoid capture by the British squadron, at Buttonmold Bay, New York, 13 October 1776.

• The second Boston was a 24-gun frigate, launched 1776 and active in the American Revolutionay War until captured by the British in 1780 along with USS Ranger and USS Providence.

• The third BostonThe third USS Boston was a 28-gun frigate in the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812. Boston was built by public subscription in Boston under the Act of 30 June 1798. She was launched 20 May 1799 by Edmund Hartt, Boston, Massachusetts, and commissio was a 28-gun frigate that captured a French frigate in the Quasi-WarThe Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1801. The pirates of the Mediterranean Sea caused the United States Congress in 1794 to begin building a navy for the protection of commerce., but was burned in the War of 1812The North American War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom is one of several wars associated with that year. It is more normally known in British texts as the British-American War to distinguish it from Napoleon's war against Russia w..

• The fourth BostonThe fourth USS Boston was an 18-gun sloop of war, launched 15 October 1825 by Boston Navy Yard and commissioned the following year, Master Commandant B. Hoffman in command. Boston served on the Brazil Station 1826- 1829 and the Mediterranean Station 1830- was an 18-gun sloop of war commissioned in 1826Events February 11 University College London is founded, under the name University of London''. April 1 Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. June 14- 15 The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny and wrecked in the BahamasThe Commonwealth of The Bahamas is an independent English-speaking nation in the West Indies. An archipelago of 700 islands and cays (which are small islands), the Bahamas is located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida in the United States, north of Cu in 1846.

• The fifth Boston was a protected cruiser commissioned in 1887 and took part in the Spanish-American War.

• The sixth Boston (CA-69) was a heavy cruiser commissioned 1943 and active in both World War II and the Korean War.

• The seventh Boston (SSN-703) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine.