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M-10 USS WYOMING
1910 - 1939


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1899 - 1909


Arkansas Class Monitor: Displacement 3,225 tons. Dimensions, 255 x 50 x 12.5 feet/77.75 x 15.24 x 3.81 meters. Armament 1 dual 12/40, 4 single 4/50, 3 6-pound. Armor, Harvey: 5-11 inch belt, 9-11 inch barbettes, 9-10 inch turrets, 7.5 inch CT. Machinery, VTE engines, 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 2,400 hp. Speed, 12.5 Knots, Crew 220.

Operational and Building Data: Built by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA. Laid down 11 April 1899, launched 8 September 1900, commissioned 8 December 1902. Operated off the west coast and Panama 1902-1904. Overhauled at Puget Sound Navy Yard 22 October 1904 to January 1905. Decommissioned to reserve 29 August 1905. Recommissioned 8 October 1909 to test use of oil-fired boilers. Renamed Cheyenne, 1 Jan 1909. Reduced to commissioned reserve 8 June 1909; decommissioned to reserve 13 November 1909.Recommissioned to commissioned reserve 11 July 1910 and loaned to the Washington State Naval Militia. Returned to the Navy 1913 and fitted as a submarine tender; recommissioned to full commission 20 August 1913. Decommissioned to reserve 3 January 1920. Designation BM 10, assigned 17 July 1920. Recommissioned 22 September 1920 as a station ship at Baltimore. Redesignated Cheyenne (IX-4), 1 July 1921. Decommissioned to reserve 1 June 1926.
Fate: Stricken for disposal 25 January 1937; sold for scrapping 20 April 1939.
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WYOMING82kCheyenne (M-10) moored off Bremerton, Washington, while serving as a training ship for the Washington State Naval Militia, circa 1910-1913. The original is a screened sepia-toned image, printed on a contempory postal card. U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 55116-KN.
WYOMING81k Cheyenne (M-10) with H-3 (SS-30), H-1 (SS-28) and H-2 (SS-29), alongside, probably at San Diego, California, circa 1914-1917. Note the submarines' 13-star "boat" flags, and the numbers "23", "21" and "22", on their periscope housings.
The first digit of these numbers represents the Second Torpedo Flotilla, to which they were assigned. The second digit represents the individual submarine's name. Also note the Sailor seated on Cheyenne's port anchor.
U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 76004. Courtesy of the Historical Collection, Union Title Insurance Company, San Diego, California.
WYOMING76kCheyenne (M-10) at anchor in a West Coast harbor, circa 1916. U.S. Naval Historical Center photo, # NH 92167. Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.
WYOMING69kA volunteer boat crew leaving Cheyenne (M-10) to attempt to assist H-3 (SS-30), soon after the latter had run ashore on Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, in mid-December 1916. U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 99323. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Donation of Donald M. McPherson.
WYOMING269k Cheyenne (M-10) with submarines of 2d SUB Div, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla. The flotilla was made-up of submarine H-1 (SS-28), H-2 (SS-29), and H-3 (SS-30). Circa 1915-1916, and location of either Bremerton or Post Angeles, Washington. Wyoming was converted to a submarine tender in 1913 and DANFS write-up on the four ships indicate that they were operating together in the Washington area. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
WYOMING75k Cheyenne (M-10), in a West Coast port prior to World War I, while serving as a submarine tender. H-2 (SS-29) and H-1 (SS-28) are tied up alongside. All three ships are dressed with flags, probably for a holiday. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 92168. Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.
WYOMING62kCheyenne (M-10) with a submarine alongside, circa 1918-1919. The submarine is probably one of the Division 3 boats tended by Cheyenne: K-3 (SS-34), K-4 (SS-35), K-7 (SS-38) or K-8 (SS-39). Location may be Key West, Florida. U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 45436.
WYOMING54k Cheyenne (M-10) with a submarine in the foreground, circa 1918-1919. The submarine is probably one of the Division 3 boats tended by Cheyenne:
K-3 (SS-34), K-4 (SS-35), K-7 (SS-38) or K-8 (SS-39). Location may be Key West, Florida.
U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 45435.
WYOMING49k Cheyenne (M-10) with a submarine in the foreground, circa 1918-1919. The submarine is probably one of the Division 3 boats tended by Cheyenne:
H-1 (SS-28), H-2 (SS-29), F-3 (SS-22) and H-3 (SS-30).
U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 101606. Courtesy of H.R. ("Ed") Coffer, 1986.
H-351k H-3 (SS-30) on the left, possibly with the H-9 (SS-152), on the right & Cheyenne (M-10) in the background at Bremerton, WA., circa 1918-22. US Navy photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Partial text courtesy of DANFS.
WYOMING100kCheyenne (IX-4), inboard at left; S-12 (SS-117), outboard at left; and Dale (DD-290) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 14 June 1926, during the National Sesquicentennial exhibit. The small boat and sailor, in the foreground, are on life-saving service to protect exhibit visitors.U.S. Naval Historical Center photo USNHC # 55117.
WYOMING74k Laid up with submarines and destroyers, in the Philadelphia Navy Yard Reserve Basin, 1938. Cheyenne (IX-4) had been stricken from the Navy list the previous year and was awaiting disposal. U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 60287-A.
(NISMF)376kA guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

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