Wyoming’s NAVY? Yeah, We Have Ships

Some years ago, I moved to Wyoming and was shocked to find out that the state had a Coast Guard unit in Campbell County.

Their job was to run an international navigation system, and they had an antenna system in the state.

That station is now obsolete and has been shut down.

But Wyoming still has ships, and a navy, RIGHT?

Well, maybe.

There was a wooden sailing ship named Wyoming that was, at the time, the largest ship ever built.

But, as you might imagine, it was wrecked. The video of that story is below.

A U.S. Navy website has a long list of ships named Wyoming.

Those ships, most of them decommissioned, go back to before WWII.

The first ship named “USS Wyoming” was designated M-10, which stood for the 10th “monitor” built for the Navy in the last two decades of the 19th century. Construction started on the ship in 1898, and it was launched on September 8, 1900. (Albany County Historical Society).

Wyoming even has a submarine. The USS Wyoming SSBN-742.

Watch this video below to see what life is like aboard the USS Wyoming, a ballistic missile submarine. 

There was even a class of navy ships called THE WYOMING CLASS.

The Wyoming-class battleships were a pair of dreadnought battleships, the lead ship being the USS Wyoming (BB-32) and the other the USS Arkansas (BB-33).

Commissioned in 1912, they were among the last US battleships to be equipped with 12-inch guns and featured improvements like a more powerful 12-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 gun, an additional twin-gun turret, and the first use of a torpedo bulkhead in American battleships.

YEAH - Wyoming has a navy.

Too bad we can't dock any of them here in our own state.

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