USS Boston (1777)

USS Boston

Continental frigates Hancock and Boston capturing British frigate Fox, 7 June 1777
History
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
Length	114 ft 3 in (34.8 m) (overall) 94 ft 3 in (28.7 m) (keel)
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)
Armament	American service: 5 × 12 pdr (5.4 kg) guns 19 × 9 pdr (4.1 kg) guns 2 × 6 pdr (2.7 kg) guns 4 × 4 pdr (1.8 kg) guns British service: 28 guns 6 × 18 pdr (8.2 kg) carronades

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.