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| Keywords: USS Despatch (IX-2) at Yerba Buena Island 1946.jpg The U S Navy training ship USS Despatch IX-2 at Yerba Buena Island San Francisco Bay California in 1946 Despatch had been commissioned as the armoured cruiser USS Boston on 2 May 1887 On 18 June 1918 she was recommissioned at Mare Island Navy Yard as a receiving ship and towed to Yerba Buena Island where she served until 1940 She was renamed Despatch the sixth U S Navy ship to bear that name on 9 August 1940 thus freeing her original name for use on the new heavy cruiser USS Boston CA-69 From 1940 to October 1945 she was used as a radio school The old ship was reclassified IX-2 on 17 February 1941 and was towed to sea and sunk off San Francisco on 8 April 1946 http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194605 pdf May 1946 p 47 1946 U S Navy 37 81086 -122 36105 PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Boston ship 1884 Yerba Buena Island | ||||
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