USS Boise (July 1938)
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United States | |
Name | Boise |
Namesake | City of Boise, Idaho |
Ordered | 13 February 1929 |
Awarded | 22 August 1934 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
Cost | $11,650,000 (contract price) |
Laid down | 1 April 1935 |
Launched | 3 December 1936 |
Sponsored by | Miss Salome Clark |
Commissioned | 12 August 1938 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1946 |
Stricken | 25 January 1951 |
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Honors and awards | 11 × battle stars |
Fate | Sold to Argentina, 11 January 1951 |
Argentina | |
Name | Nueve de Julio |
Namesake | Independence of Argentina |
Acquired | 11 January 1951 |
Commissioned | 11 March 1952 |
Decommissioned | 1979 |
Identification | Hull symbol:C-5 |
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General characteristics (as built)[1] | |
Class and type | Brooklyn-class cruiser |
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Length | |
Beam | 61 ft 7 in (18.77 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h) |
Complement | 868 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 4 × SOC Seagull floatplanes |
Aviation facilities | 2 × stern catapults |
General characteristics (1945)[2][3] | |
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USS Boise (CL-47) was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn class in the United States Navy. The cruiser was named for Boise, the capital city of the state of Idaho. Commissioned in 1938, she saw extensive service during World War II, taking part in fighting in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Following the war the ship was decommissioned in 1946 and lay idle until sold to Argentina in 1951. Renamed ARA Nueve de Julio, the ship remained in service with the Argentinian Navy until 1978, after which she was taken to Brownsville, Texas and scrapped in 1983.