Construction and Commissioning
Wyoming was laid down on 9 February 1910 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by William Cramp and Sons. She was launched on 25 May 1911 sponsored by Miss Dorothy Eunice Knight, the daughter of Chief Justice Jesse Knight of the Wyoming Supreme Court,and god-daughter of Wyoming Governor Joseph M. Carey; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 September 1912, Captain Frederick L. Chapin in command.
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