U.S.S. Wyoming
AG-17
1945
(Neptun 1309a)
- Class: Wyoming - 2 battleships of 1909
- Displacement: 19,700 tons
- Dimensions: 555(wl) 562(oa) x 106 x 26 ft.
- Machinery: 4-shaft turbines, S.H.P. 20,000 = 18 knots
- Armament: 10-5"/38 (4x2+2x1), 4-5"/25 (4x1), 4-3"/50 (4x1), 12-40mm (1x4+3x2+2x1) A.A. guns
- Complement: 400
- Builder: Cramp Shipbuilding, Philadelphia, PA
- Keel Laid: 9 Feb 1910
- Launched: 25 May 1911
- Commissioned: 25 Sep 1912
- Decommissioned: 21 May 1930
- Recommissioned: 1 Jul 1931
- Notes: Built as BB-32 with 12-12" and 21-5" guns like her sister Arkansas. Demilitarised in 1930 as consequence of Washington Naval Treaty. Side armor removed, Nos. 3, 4 and 5 main battery turrets removed, and machinery reduced. Reclassified as gunnery training ship AG-17. Remaining main battery turrets removed in 1944 and mixed A.A. battery installed as shown here.
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