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USS Wyoming (BB-32)

Wyoming, c 1912-13
Wyoming, c. 1912–13
History
United States
Name: Wyoming
Namesake: State of Wyoming
Ordered: 3 March 1909
Builder: William Cramp and Sons
Laid down: 9 February 1910
Launched: 25 May 1911
Sponsored by: Dorothy Eunice Knight
Commissioned: 25 September 1912
Decommissioned: 1 August 1947
Reclassified: 1 July 1931, Gunnery Training Ship
Struck: 16 December 1947
Identification:
Nickname(s): "Chesapeake Raider" (WW II)
Fate: Sold for scrap October 30, 1947 and broken up in Newark NJ
General characteristics
Class and type: Wyoming-class battleship
Displacement:
  • 26,000 long tons (26,000 t) (standard)
  • 27,243 long tons (27,680 t) (full load)
Length:
Beam: 93 ft 3 in (28.42 m)
Draft:
  • 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) (mean)
  • 29 ft 7 in (9.02 m) (max)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 20.5 kn (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph) (design)
  • 21.22 kn (39.30 km/h; 24.42 mph) (trials)
Range: 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 1,063 officers and enlisted
Armament:
Armor:
General characteristics 1925-27 refit
Displacement:
  • 26,100 long tons (26,500 t) (standard) (torpedo bulges added)
  • 31,000 long tons (31,000 t) (full load) (torpedo bulges added)
Draft: 32 ft (9.8 m) (max)
Installed 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 (76 mm)/50 caliber AA guns (added in 1919)
  • Torpedo tubes removed
Aircraft carried: 3 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities: 1 × catapult (fitted on Turret 3)
General characteristics 1931 refit
Displacement:
  • 26000 LT (standard) (torpedo bulges removed)
  • 27243 LT (full load) (torpedo bulges removed)
Draft:
  • 28 ft 6 in (mean)
  • 29 ft 7 in (max)
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 carried: Aircraft removed
Aviation facilities: Catapult removed
General characteristics 1944 refit
Armament:


USS Wyoming (BB-32) was the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships and was the third ship of the United States Navy named Wyoming, although she was only the second named in honor of the 44th state. Wyoming was laid down at the William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia in February 1910, was launched in May 1911, and was completed in September 1912. She was armed with a main battery of twelve 12-inch (305 mm) guns and capable of a top speed of 20.5 kn (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph).

During the First World War, she was part of the Battleship Division Nine, which was attached to the British Grand Fleet as the 6th Battle Squadron. During the war, she was primarily tasked with patrolling in the North Sea and escorting convoys to Norway. She served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets throughout the 1920s, and in 1931–1932, she was converted into a training ship according to the terms of the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Wyoming served as a training ship throughout the 1930s, and in November 1941, she became a gunnery ship. She operated primarily in the Chesapeake Bay area, which earned her the nickname "Chesapeake Raider". In this capacity, she trained some 35,000 gunners for the hugely expanded US Navy during World War II. She continued in this duty until 1947, when she was decommissioned on 1 August and subsequently sold for scrap; she was broken up in New York starting in December 1947.


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