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Photo # NH 92167: USS Cheyenne (ex-Wyoming) in a West Coast harbor, circa 1916

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Wyoming (Monitor # 10, later BM-10 and IX-4), 1902-1939.
Name changed to Cheyenne in 1909

USS Wyoming, a 3225-ton Arkansas class monitor built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned in December 1902. She served in the eastern Pacific for the next four and a half years, with the high point of her operations taking place in late 1903 and early 1904, when her presence in Panama waters helped secure the independence of that country from Colombia. Laid up between late August 1905 and October 1908, Wyoming was then employed as a test ship for oil fuel. In order to free her name for use on the new Battleship # 32 she was renamed Cheyenne at the beginning of 1909. Again out of commission from November 1909 until July 1910, the monitor then steamed north to serve as a training ship for the State of Washington's Naval Militia, a job she held into 1913.

Following conversion at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Cheyenne began duty as a submarine tender in West Coast waters. In 1914 she took time out from that work to evacuate refugees from revolution-torn Mexico. In her tender role she also participated in attempts to salvage the stranded submarine H-3 in December 1916 and January 1917. During much of World War I Cheyenne served in the Atlantic as tender for submarines operating in the Gulf of Mexico area, and in 1919 was again active off Mexico. Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in early January 1920, the monitor returned to active service in September of that year for service as a training ship at Baltimore, Maryland. She was redesignated IX-4 for this purpose. Returning to Philadelphia in January 1926, USS Cheyenne was decommissioned at the beginning of June and remained in reserve until January 1937, when she was stricken from the Navy list. The longest surviving of the Navy's big-gun monitors, the old ship was sold for scrapping in April 1939.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have related to USS Wyoming (Monitor # 10, later BM-10 and IX-4), which was renamed Cheyenne in 1909.

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Wyoming and USS Cheyenne (Monitor # 10) -- On Board and Partial Views; and
  • USS Wyoming (Monitor # 10) -- Construction and Miscellaneous Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 43870

    USS Wyoming     (Monitor # 10)

    Moored off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 12 February 1903.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44264

    USS Wyoming     (Monitor # 10)

    Moored off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in February 1903.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 43869

    USS Wyoming     (Monitor # 10)

    Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 1902-1908.
    The original photograph is printed on a silver-finish paper.

    Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 325 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63141

    USS Wyoming     (Monitor # 10)

    In a West Coast harbor, circa 1902-1908.

    Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farrenholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99353-KN (color)

    USS Wyoming (Monitor # 10)

    Postal card published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, California, featuring a color-tinted photograph of Wyoming taken circa 1902-1908.

    Donated by USS Parsons (DD-949), 1967.

    The Naval Historical Center's Photograph Collection contains another copy of this postcard that is postmarked Tacoma, Washington, 1 June 1908.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102764

    USS Castine     (Gunboat # 6)

    At the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, in February 1911. Three submarines are tied up to her starboard side and USS Severn (1900-1916, ex-Chesapeake) is between Castine and the wharf.

    Collection of Chief Boatswain's Mate John E. Lynch, USN. Donated by his son, Robert J. Lynch, in April 2000.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55116-KN (color)

    USS Cheyenne (Monitor # 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 Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92167

    USS Cheyenne     (Monitor # 10)

    At anchor in a West Coast harbor, circa 1916.

    Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45436

    USS Cheyenne     (Monitor # 10)

    With a submarine alongside, circa 1918-1919. The submarine is probably one of the Division 3 boats tended by Cheyenne: K-3, K-4, K-7 or K-8. Location may be Key West, Florida.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45435

    USS Cheyenne     (Monitor # 10), at right

    With a submarine in the foreground, circa 1918-1919.
    The submarine is probably one of the Division 3 boats tended by Cheyenne: K-3, K-4, K-7 or K-8. Location may be Key West, Florida.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55117

    USS Cheyenne (IX-4)    , inboard at left;
    USS S-12 (SS-117), outboard at left; and
    USS Dale (DD-290)

    At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 14 June 1926, during the National Sesquicentennial exhibit there.
    The small boat and Sailor, in the foreground, are on life-saving service to protect exhibit visitors.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60287-A

    USS Cheyenne     (IX-4)

    Laid up with submarines and destroyers, in the Philadelphia Navy Yard Reserve Basin, 1938. Cheyenne had been stricken from the Navy list the previous year and was awaiting disposal.
    Cropped from Photo # NH 60287.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     

    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Wyoming and USS Cheyenne (Monitor # 10) -- On Board and Partial Views; and
  • USS Wyoming (Monitor # 10) -- Construction and Miscellaneous Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 13 June 2004
    New image added 14 March 2005