USS Boise (CL-47)

USS Boise, during trials, 7 July 1938.
History
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
Struck:	25 January 1951
Identification:	Hull symbol:CL-47 Code letters:NAQG
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
Fate:	Sold for scrap August 1981
Status:	Scrapped 1983 at Brownsville, Texas
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Brooklyn-class cruiser
Displacement:	10,000 long tons (10,000 t) (estimated as design) 9,767 long tons (9,924 t) (standard) 12,207 long tons (12,403 t) (max)
Length:	600 ft (180 m) oa 608 ft 4 in (185.42 m) lwl
Beam:	61 ft 7 in (18.77 m)
Draft:	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) (mean) 24 ft (7.3 m) (max)
Installed power:	8 × Steam boilers 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 × geared turbines 4 × screws
Speed:	32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)
Complement:	868 officers and enlisted
Armament:	15 × 6 in (150 mm)/47 caliber Mark 16 guns (5x3) 8 × 5 in (130 mm)/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns (8×1) 8 × caliber 0.50 in (13 mm) machine guns
Armor:	Belt: 3 1⁄4–5 in (83–127 mm) Deck: 2 in (51 mm) Barbettes: 6 in (150 mm) Turrets: 1 1⁄4–6 in (32–152 mm) Conning Tower: 2 1⁄4–5 in (57–127 mm)
Aircraft carried:	4 × SOC Seagull floatplanes
Aviation facilities:	2 × stern catapults
General characteristics (1945)
Armament:	15 × 6 in (150 mm)/47 caliber Mark 16 guns (5x3) 8 × 5 in (130 mm)/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns (8×1) 4 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 18 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons

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 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.

Boise was launched on 3 December 1936 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, sponsored by Miss Salome Clark, the daughter of Governor Clark of Idaho. The ship commissioned on 12 August 1938 with Captain Benjamin Vaughan McCandlish in command.

In February 1939, following a shakedown cruise to Monrovia, Liberia and Cape Town, Union of South Africa, Boise joined Cruiser Division 9 (CruDiv 9), Battle Force, at San Pedro, California. Until November 1941, she operated alternately off the west coast and in Hawaiian waters. She then escorted a convoy to Manila, Philippine Islands, arriving on 4 December.