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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Boston_(SSN-703).jpg) USS Boston (SSN-703)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Boston |
| Namesake | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Awarded | 10 December 1973 |
| Builder | General Dynamics Corporation |
| Laid down | 11 August 1978 |
| Launched | 19 April 1980 |
| Commissioned | 30 January 1982 |
| Decommissioned | 19 November 1999 |
| Stricken | 19 November 1999 |
| Motto | Freedom's Birthplace |
| Fate | Scrapped with only the sail on display at Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
| Displacement | 5,779 tons light, 6,150 tons full, 371 tons dead |
| Length | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion | S6G nuclear reactor |
| Complement | 12 officers, 98 men |
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USS Boston (SSN-703), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named for Boston, Massachusetts.