USS Wyoming (BM-10)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Wyoming and USS Cheyenne.

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
TypeArkansas-class 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
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
Armor
Service record
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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 Union Iron Works, San Francisco, 5 October 1898.[1] The keel of Monitor No. 10 was laid down on 11 April 1898. She was 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.

  1. ^ Ships' Data 1914, pp. 52–53.
  2. ^ DANFS 2015.
  3. ^ Schmidt 1921, p. 744.