Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Boston:
- HMS Boston, a 32 gun fifth rate built in America in 1692 and presented by the citizens of Boston to the Royal Navy in 1694. The ship was captured in the Atlantic by French forces on 4 January 1695.
- HMS Boston, a 24 gun sixth rate launched at Boston, Massachusetts in 1748 and broken up in 1752.
- HMS Boston was a 44 gun fifth rate launched at Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1749 as HMS America and renamed in 1756. The ship was sold in 1757.
- HMS Boston, a 32 gun fifth rate launched at Rotherhithe in May 1762 and broken up in 1811.
- HMS Boston, a 6 gun schooner constructed at Navy Island in 1764 for service on the Canadian Lakes. It was burnt in 1768.
- HMS Boston, a turbine-powered Bangor-class minesweeper launched at Troon, Scotland in December 1940 and sold for scrap in January 1948.
Famous quotes containing the word boston:
“In Boston they ask, “How much does he know?” In New York, “How much is he worth?” In Philadelphia, “Who were his parents?””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)