USS Wyoming (1859)

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History
United States
Name	USS Wyoming
Laid down	July 1858
Launched	19 January 1859
Commissioned	October 1859
Decommissioned	30 October 1882
Fate	Sold, 9 May 1892
General characteristics
Type	Screw sloop
Displacement	1,457 long tons (1,480 t)
Length	198 ft 6 in (60.50 m)
Beam	33 ft 2 in (10.11 m)
Draft	14 ft 10 in (4.52 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	198 officers and enlisted
Armament	2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns 1 × 60-pounder Parrott rifle 3 × 32-pounder guns

The first USS Wyoming of the United States Navy was a wooden-hulled screw sloop that fought on the Union side during the American Civil War. Sent to the Pacific Ocean to search for the CSS Alabama, Wyoming eventually came upon the shores of Japan and engaged Japanese land and sea forces. On 16 July 1863, Wyoming won the first-ever United States naval victory over Japan in the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits.