USS Despatch (IX-2) at Yerba Buena Island 1946

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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.

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U.S. Navy All Hands magazine May 1946, p. 47.

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