USS Wyoming (BM-10)

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USS Wyoming
History
United States
Name
  • Wyoming (1902–1908)
  • Cheyenne (1909–1937)
Namesake
Ordered4 May 1898
Awarded5 October 1898
BuilderUnion Iron Works, San Francisco
Cost$1,624,270.59
Laid down11 April 1899
Launched8 September 1900
Commissioned8 December 1902
Decommissioned1 June 1926
RenamedCheyenne, 1 January 1909
Stricken25 January 1937
Identification
FateSold for scrap, 20 April 1939
General characteristics
Type
monitor
Displacement
  • 3,225 long tons (3,277 t) (standard)
  • 3,356 long tons (3,410 t) (full load)
Length
Beam50 ft (15 m)
Draft12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) (mean)
Installed power
Propulsion
  • 2 ×
    Vertical triple expansion engines
  • 2 ×
    screw propellers
Speed
  • 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) (design)
  • 12.4 kn (23.0 km/h; 14.3 mph) (on trial)
Complement13 officers 209 men
Armament
  • 2 ×
    breech-loading rifles
    (1×2)
  • 4 ×
    4 in (102 mm)/40 cal guns
    (4×1)
  • 3 ×
    6-pounder 57 mm (2.2 in) guns
Armor
Service record
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Operations:

USS Wyoming was the second ship of the United States Navy to bear that name, but the first to bear it in honor of the 44th state. The first Wyoming was named for Wyoming Valley in eastern Pennsylvania.

Wyoming was ordered on 4 May 1898, and awarded to the

launched on 8 September 1900 sponsored by Miss Hattie Warren, daughter of Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, and commissioned at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, on 8 December 1902.[2] The total cost for the hull, machinery, armor and armament was $1,624,270.59.[3]

In 1909, the ship was renamed Cheyenne to free her original name for a new battleship and she was allocated the hull number M-10, which was altered to BM-10 in 1920 and ultimately IX-4 in 1921. She was ultimately sold for scrap in 1939.

Design

Main article: Arkansas-class monitor

The Arkansas-class monitors had been designed to combine a heavy striking power with easy concealment and negligible target area. They had a displacement of 3,225 long tons (3,277 t; 3,612 short tons), measured 255 feet 1 inch (77.75 m) in overall length, with a beam of 50 feet 1 inch (15.27 m) and a draft of 12 feet 6 inches (3.81 m). She was manned by a total crew of 13 officers and 209 men.[4][5]

Wyoming, the first ship in the fleet to be converted to oil power, was powered by two

sea trials she was only able to produce 2,336 ihp (1,742 kW) with a top speed of 12.4 kn (23.0 km/h; 14.3 mph).[7] Wyoming was designed to provide a range of 2,360 nautical miles (4,370 km; 2,720 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph).[4][5]

The ship was armed with a

6-pounder 57 mm (2.2 in) guns. The main belt armor was 11 in (280 mm) in the middle tapering to 5 in (130 mm) at the ends. The gun turrets were between 10 and 9 in (250 and 230 mm), with 11 to 9 in (280 to 230 mm) barbettes. Wyoming also had a 1.5 in (38 mm) deck.[4][5]

Service history

Wyoming

After fitting out at Mare Island, Wyoming ran her trials and exercises in

Acapulco, Mexico, on 31 October. She subsequently shifted further south, to Colombia, where a civil war and a rebellion in the Panamanian territory instigated by the United States government, took part in the independence of the Panamanian territory from Colombia, to later build the Panama Canal. The monitor accordingly arrived in Panamanian waters on 13 November and sailed up the Tuira River in company with the protected cruiser Boston, with a company of Marines under Lieutenant S.A.M. Patterson, USMC, and Lieutenant C.B. Taylor, USMC, embarked, to land at Yariza
and observe the movements of Colombian troops.

The presence of American armed might there and elsewhere ultimately aided in

Acapulco, Mexico. After remaining at that port from 27 to 29 April, Wyoming visited Pichilinque, Mexico
from 3 to 9 May. She subsequently reached San Diego, on 14 May for a nine-day stay.

For the remainder of 1904, Wyoming operated off the West Coast, ranging from

Magdalena Bay, Mexico, for target practice. Later cruising to Acapulco and Panamanian waters, Wyoming also operated off San Salvador and Port Harford, California, before she returned to Mare Island
on 30 July to be decommissioned on 29 August 1905.

Recommissioned on 8 October 1908 with Commander John J. Knapp in command, Wyoming spent over two months at Mare Island refitting. Converted to fuel oil – the first ship to do so in the United States Navy – she underwent tests for her oil-burning installation at San Francisco, Santa Barbara, California, and San Diego, into March 1909. During those tests, Wyoming was renamed Cheyenne on 1 January 1909, in order to clear the name Wyoming for the projected Battleship No. 32. The ship consequently underwent more tests on her oil-burning equipment at Santa Barbara, San Pedro, and San Diego before she was placed in reserve at Mare Island on 8 June. She was decommissioned on 13 November of the same year.

Cheyenne

USS Cheyenne with submarines USS H-1 and H-2 alongside

Recommissioned, in reserve, on 11 July 1910,

Ensenada, Mexico, and San Quentin, Mexico
, transporting them both times to San Diego.

Cheyenne then resumed her submarine tending operations on the West Coast, continuing them into 1917. On 10 April of that year, four days after the U.S. entered

Philadelphia Navy Yard
on 23 October 1919, where she was decommissioned on 3 January 1920.

While inactive at

minesweeper Owl took Cheyenne in tow and took her to Norfolk, Virginia, and thence to Philadelphia, where she arrived on 27 January for inactivation. Decommissioned on 1 June 1926, Cheyenne was struck from the Naval Vessel Register
on 25 January 1937, and her stripped-down hulk was sold for scrap on 20 April 1939.

Notes

  1. ^ Ships' Data 1914, pp. 52–53.
  2. ^ DANFS 2015.
  3. ^ Schmidt 1921, p. 744.
  4. ^ a b c d Friedman 1985, p. 452.
  5. ^ a b c Yarnall 2016.
  6. ^ Ships' Data 1914, p. 50.
  7. ^ Ships' Data 1914, pp. 49–50.
  8. ^ Friedman 2011.
  9. ^ DiGiulian & 12"/40 2015.
  10. ^ DiGiulian & 4"/50 2015.

Bibliography

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  • Ships' Data, U. S. Naval Vessels, 1911-. US Naval Department. 1 January 1914. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  • Schmidt, Carl H. (1921). "Navy Yearbook". Senate Documents No. 302. 11. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office: 744.
  • DiGiulian, Tony (9 May 2015). "United States of America 12"/40 (30.5 cm) Mark 3 and Mark 4". Navweaps. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  • DiGiulian, Tony (15 June 2015). "United States of America 4"/50 (10.2 cm) Marks 7, 8, 9 and 10". Navweaps. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
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