Warship Tours Planned For Bunker Hill Day Festivities
USS Roberts Arrives In Boston Thursday
POSTED: 10:26 am EDT June 11,
2009
UPDATED: 10:39 am EDT June 11,
2009
BOSTON -- The USS Samuel B. Roberts arrives in Boston Thursday in time for Bunker Hill day weekend.The Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate and the crew of 200 sailors will provide an honor guard for the Red Sox/Yankees game Thursday night and crew members will march in Sunday's Bunker Hill Day parade in Charlestown.While in port, the public can visit the shop on Friday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.During the past year, USS Roberts has participated in counter terrorism missions in the Pacific and Caribbean, making four drug busts and capturing more than 11 tons of cocaine worth millions of dollars.The 4,100-ton warship was built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and was commissioned in April 1986. The ship is 453 feet long and 45 feet wide and was named after Samuel B. Roberts, a Navy coxswain killed in action in 1942.
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