American battleship USS Wyoming (BB-32) 1910-1947

Floirda-class

Wyoming-class

New York-class

Laid down at William Cramp&Sons, Philadelphia, USA on 9 February 1910, launched by Dorothy Eunice Knight on 25 May 1911, commissioned on 25 September 1912, converted into a training ship between 1931-1932, gunnery training ship since November 1941, decommissioned on 1 August 1947, stricken on 16 September 1947 and sold to be broken up on 30 October 1947 which was executed by Lipsett Incorporated at Newark after her arrival at New York on 5 December 1947.

Of the Wyoming-class with as sister ship Arkansas (BB-33), preceded by the Florida-class and succeeded by the New York-class. There were 3 preliminary designs for this class drawn on base if the preceding Florida-class of which design 601 was chosen with a main armament of 12-30,5cm/12” guns. The building was approved on 3 March 1909.

General technical specifications. Displacement 26,417 (standard)-27,680 (full load) tons and as dimensions 169 (waterline)-171 (over all) x 28,42 metres x 8,69 (mean)-9,02 (maximum) metres or 554-562 x 93’3 x 28.6-29.7 feet. The 4 Parsons steam turbines and 12 coal fuelled superheating Babcocc&Wilcox water tube-boilers supplied via 4 shafts 28.000 shp allowing with the 4 screws a speed of 21 knots and a range of 8.000 nautical miles with a speed of 10 knots. The crew numbered 1.063 men. The armour consisted of a 12,7-27,9cm/5-11” thick belt, 3,8-6,4cm/1.5-2.5” thick decks with the turrets, barbettes and conning tower protected by respectively 7,6cm/3” (roofs)-30,5cm/12” (face), 29,2cm/11.5” and 3,8-6,4cm/1.5-2.5”. The armament consisted of 6x3-30,5cm/12’ /50 Mark 7 guns, 21-12,7cm/5” /51 guns, 4-4,7cm/1.85”/3pd /40 saluting guns and 2-53,3cm/21” submerged torpedo tubes (broadside).