USS Wyoming (BB-32)
Service
- as Wyoming25 September 1912 — 1 August 19472,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Wyoming
- Pennant / hull number
- BB-32
- Namesake
- Wyoming
- Builder
- William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
- Ordered
- 3 March 1909
- Laid down
- 9 February 1910
- Launched
- 25 May 1911
- Commissioned
- 25 September 1912
- Decommissioned
- 1 August 1947
- Struck
- 16 December 1947
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 30 October 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 26,000 long tons (26,417 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 27,243 long tons (27,680 t)
- Length
- 171.3 m (562 ft) OA
- Beam
- 28.35 m (93 ft)
- Draught
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Speed
- 21.2 knots (39.3 km/h, 24.4 mph)
- Range
- 8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
- Complement
- 1,063
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
The first Wyoming was named for the valley in Luzerne County, eastern Pennsylvania, that runs along the Susquehanna River; the second and third commemorate the state of Wyoming, the 44th State of the Union.
The third Wyoming (Battleship No. 32) was laid down on 9 February 1910 at Philadelphia, Pa., by William Cramp & Sons; launched on 25 May 1911; sponsored by Miss Dorothy Eunice Knight, the daughter of former Chief Justice Jesse Knight of the Wyoming Supreme Court; and commissioned at the Philadelphia (Pa.) Navy Yard on 25 September 1912, Capt. Frederick L. Chapin in command.
Wyoming departed Philadelphia on 6 October 1912 and completed the fitting-out process at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., before she joined the fleet in Hampton Roads, Va. Reaching the Tidewater area on 30 December 1912, she became the flagship of Rear Adm. Charles J. Badger, Commander, United States Atlantic Fleet, soon thereafter. Sailing on 6 January 1913, the new battleship visited the soon-to-be-completed Panama Canal and then conducted winter fleet maneuvers off Cuba before she returned to Chesapeake Bay on 4 March.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Wyoming III (Battleship No. 32)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 4 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 × Parsons steam turbines
- 4 × screw propellers
- Power
- 12 × Babcock & Wilcox coal-fired water-tube boilers
- 28000 shp
- Armament
- 12 × 12 in/50 caliber Mark 7 guns
- 21 × 5 in/51 cal guns
- 4 × 3-pounder 47 mm/40 cal saluting guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes (submerged)
- Armour
- Belt: 5 - 11 in
- Turret face: 12 in
- Barbettes: 11 in
- Conning tower: 11.5 in
- Decks: 1.5 - 2.5 in
1925 27 refit
- Displacement, standard
- 26,100 long tons (26,519 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 31,000 long tons (31,497 t)
- Draught
- 9.75 m (32 ft)
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
- Power
- 4 × White-Forster oil-fired boilers
- Armament
- 12 × 12 in/50 caliber Mark 7 guns
- 16 × 5 in/51 caliber guns (reduced in 1919)
- 4 × 3-pounder saluting guns
- 2 × 3 in/50 caliber AA guns (added in 1919)
- Aircraft
- 3 × floatplanes
1931 refit
- Displacement, standard
- 26,000 long tons (26,417 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 27,243 long tons (27,680 t)
- Draught
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 12 in/50 caliber Mark 7 guns (turrets 3, 4, and 5 removed)
- 16 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
- 4 × 3-pounder saluting guns
- 2 × 3 in/50 caliber AA guns
- Aircraft
- Aircraft removed
1944 refit
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
- Armament
- Remaining 12 in guns removed
- 10 × 5 in/38 caliber dual-purpose guns
- 4 × 3 in/50 caliber AA guns
- 4 × 3-pounder saluting guns
- 6 × 40 mm Bofors guns (3 × 2)
- 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns (2 × 2)
- 2 × Mk 17 rocket launchers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Wyoming (BB-32) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Wyoming III (Battleship No. 32) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons