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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USS_Boston_(1799).jpg) An engraving of USS Boston in the Mediterranean circa 1802
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Boston |
| Namesake | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Builder | Edmund Hartt |
| Cost | $119,570 |
| Launched | 20 May 1799 |
| Commissioned | 1799 |
| Fate | Burned, 24 August 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Frigate |
| Tonnage | 700 tons displacement 400 tons |
| Length | 134 ft (41 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft 6 in (10.52 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Speed | 9.2 knots (17.0 km/h; 10.6 mph) |
| Complement | 220 officers and enlisted |
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The third USS Boston was a 32-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. Boston was built by public subscription in Boston under the Act of 30 June 1798. Boston was active during the Quasi-War with France and the First Barbary War. On 12 October 1800, Boston engaged and captured the French corvette Berceau. Boston was laid up in 1802, and considered not worth repairing at the outbreak of the War of 1812. She was burned at the Washington Naval Yard on 24 August 1814 to prevent her capture by British forces.