| |
|
| Country:
USA |
|
Type: Battleship |
| Service:
1912 - 1947 |
| Ordered: 3 March 1909 |
| Laid down: 9 February 1910 |
| Launched: 25 May 1911 |
| Commissioned: 25 September 1912 |
| Decommissioned: 1 August 1947 |
| Fate: Scrapped 5 December 1947 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Wyoming class battleship was a series of two battleships of the United States Navy which served during World War I and World War II. The requirements for this class arose from the very general requirements of the Newport Conference. This designed marked the end of the Board on Construction and the rise of the General Board in US ship design. The class was about twenty percent larger than the preceding the Florida class battships.
USS Wyoming (BB-32) was the lead ship of her class of battleship. Wyoming was laid down on 9 February 1910 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by William Cramp and Sons. She was launched on 25 May 1911 and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 September 1912. After American entry into the First World War the Wyoming served with British naval forces. Postwar, USS Wyoming continued in service with the US Navy. Her main role in World War II was as a gunnery training vessel. On 11 July 1947, Wyoming entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and was decommissioned on 1 August 1947. The Wyoming was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on 16 September 1947, and her hulk was sold for scrapping on 30 October 1947. She was delivered to Lipsett of New York City on 5 December 1947.
|
