USS Boise (CL-47)
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The USS Boise (ID: CL-47) was a Brooklyn- class light cruiser of the United States Navy . She took part in the Pacific War and was sold to Argentina in 1951 .
history
The Boise was laid down on April 1, 1935 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News , Virginia . The launch took place on December 3, 1936 and she entered service on August 12, 1938 under the command of Captain BV McCandlish.
In February 1939, after a test drive to Monrovia , Liberia and Cape Town , the Boise joined the 9th Cruiser Division in San Pedro, California. Until November 1941 she operated on the west coast and off Hawaii . She then accompanied a convoy to Manila in the Philippines , where she arrived on December 4th.
During the outbreak of the Pacific War, she was off Cebu . She joined Task Force 5 in the East Indies, but on January 21, 1942, she ran into an unmapped sandbar in Sapestraße and had to return to Colombo , Ceylon, and eventually the Mare Island Naval Shipyard . After the repair, she accompanied a convoy to Auckland , New Zealand . Then she ran to Pearl Harbor and was involved in an operation in Japanese waters from July 31 to August 24, 1943, to divert the attention of the Japanese from the landings on Guadalcanal . In August she accompanied convoys to the Fiji Islands and the New Hebrides .
In September she helped cover the landing of reinforcements on Guadalcanal. In the following Battle of Cape Esperance , she was hit by Japanese shells after taking fire to several aircraft. The Boise ran to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard , where it was repaired from November 19, 1942 to March 20, 1943.
On June 8, 1943, she ran into the Mediterranean , where she arrived in Algiers on June 21 . Between July 10 and August 18, the Boise was involved in the landing in Sicily ( Operation Husky ) as escort and fire support. In September she was involved in the landings near Taranto and Salerno ( Operation Avalanche ). Thereafter, the cruiser returned to New York and ran into the South Pacific, where it arrived in Milne Bay, New Guinea on December 31st .
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From January to September 1944, she took part in operations on the north coast of New Guinea. From June 3 to 16, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur took them to the Philippines and Brunei . She then returned to San Pedro, California, where she arrived on July 7th.
The cruiser remained in the San Pedro area for overhaul and training purposes. On October 3, she ran to the east coast, where she arrived in New York on October 20. There she stayed until her decommissioning on July 1, 1946. On January 11, 1951, she was sold to Argentina together with her sister ship Phoenix , where she was put into service as Nueve de Julio . It stayed there until 1978 when it was decommissioned and taken to Japan for scrapping.
The Boise received eleven Battle Stars for its service in World War II .
