USS WYOMING (SSBN 742)

USS Wyoming (1859 - 1882) Sloop
 

The first, a wooden-hulled steam sloop named after the Wyoming Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, was launched in 1859. In 1862, under the command of Comdr. David Stockton McDougal, the Wyoming joined the hunt for the elusive CSS Alabama. In 1863 in a confrontation with the Empire of Japan in the Straits of Shimonoseki, the Wyoming protected American treaty rights in the western Pacific. On 30 October 1882 the Wyoming was decommissioned. On 9 May 1892 she was sold.

USS Wyoming (1900 - 1937) Monitor
 

The second USS Wyoming was the United States Monitor Wyoming was authorized in 1898, launched in 1900, at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. Her sponsor was Miss Hattie Warren, daughter of Wyoming U.S. Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1908 she became the first U.S. ship to be converted from coal to oil.  Her name was changed to the USS Cheyenne on 1 January 1909, in order to permit a third vessel to be named the USS Wyoming. In 1913, she was refitted as a submarine tender. The Cheyenne was decommissioned in 1920, re-commissioned and decommissioned for the final time on 1 June 1926, struck from the Navy list on 25 Jan 1937 and sold for scrap on 20 April 1939.

USS Wyoming (1912 - 1947) Battleship # 19,  BB-19

The third USS Wyoming commissioned on 25 September 1912 and became the flagship of the Commander of the United States Atlantic Fleet. She had a length of 562 feet, beam of 93 ft. draft of 28 ft. 6 in. and with its 28,000 hp. turbine engines could make a top speed of 21 knots. It saw duty during both world wars and was a part of the Sixth Battle Squadron of the "Grand Fleet" following the Unites States' entry into World War I. In 1931, as a result of the London treaty limiting naval armaments, her armor was removed together with the guns and turret machinery from three of its six main battery turrets. During WW II she was converted to a gunnery training ship, training some 35,000 Sailors on seven different types of guns. Among those serving on her prior to her decommissioning in 1947 was later Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr., who served as Executive Officer and Lt. James Earle Carter, Jr., later President of the United States, who, following graduation from the Academy, served as Radar Officer.

USS Wyoming (1997 - Present) SSBN-742

The submarine USS WYOMING (SSBN 742) is the fourth U.S. Naval vessel to be named in honor of the state of Wyoming, and is the seventeenth Trident Submarine to be commissioned.

Keel Layed:  8 August 1991
Christening Date:  15 July 1995
Commissioning Date:  13 July 1996
Currently:  In Active Service

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USS WYOMING (SSBN 742)

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