USS Boston, first of a class of seven 700-ton 18-gun sloops of war, was built at the Boston Navy Yard. Commissioned in 1826, she served on the Brazil Station for the rest of the decade and in the Mediterranean Sea during the early 1830s. After a few years "in ordinary", Boston operated in the West Indies during the later 1830s, went out to the East Indies in the early 1840s and was back on the Brazil Station during 1843-1846. On 15 November 1846, while en route to join the wartime blockade of Mexico's east coast, USS Boston was wrecked in the Bahamas, fortunately without loss of life.