page_title: USS Wyoming (BM-10)
section_title: Submarine tender
hierarchical_section_title: USS Wyoming (BM-10) / Service history / Cheyenne / Submarine tender
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo # NH 92168 &#160;&#160;&#160; Submarines H-2 and H-1 alongside USS Cheyenne USS Cheyenne (Monitor # 10) In a West Coast port prior to World War I, while serving as a submarine tender. USS H-2 (Submarine # 29) and USS H-1 (Submarine # 28) are tied up alongside. All three ships are dressed with flags, probably for a holiday.
context_page_description: USS Wyoming (BM-10) was the second ship of the United States Navy to bear that name, but the first to bear it in honor of the 44th state. The first Wyoming was named for Wyoming Valley in eastern Pennsylvania.
  Wyoming was ordered on 4 May 1898, and awarded to the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, 5 October 1898. The keel of Monitor No. 10 was laid down on 11 April 1898. She was launched on 8 September 1900 sponsored by Miss Hattie Warren, daughter of Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, and commissioned at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, on 8 December 1902 with Commander Vincendon Lazarus Cottman in command. The total cost for the hull, machinery, armor and armament was $1,624,270.59.
context_section_description: Recommissioned, in reserve, on 11 July 1910, Lieutenant Commander Charles Trusedale Owens in command, Cheyenne was assigned to the Washington Naval Militia in 1911 and operated in an "in commission, in reserve" status into 1913. Shifting to the Puget Sound Navy Yard early in February 1913, Cheyenne was fitted out as a submarine tender over the ensuing months. Finally, on 20 August 1913, Cheyenne was placed in "full commission" with Lieutenant Kenneth Heron in command.
  The newly converted submarine tender operated in the Puget Sound region until 11 December, when she sailed for San Francisco. In the ensuing months, Cheyenne tended the submarines of the Second Submarine Division, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, at Mare Island, San Francisco, and San Pedro, into April 1914. Later that spring, when troubled conditions in Mexico threatened American lives and property, Cheyenne interrupted her submarine tending duties twice, once in late April and once in mid-May, to embark refugees at Ensenada, Mexico, and San Quentin, Mexico, transporting them both times to San Diego.
caption: USS Cheyenne with submarines USS H-1 and H-2 alongside
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