Bible Class on the USS Wyoming

Item Information

Title:
Bible Class on the USS Wyoming
Description:
This lantern slide shows sailors posing for a group photograph with a YMCA secretary on the deck of the USS Wyoming. The men shown were students of a YMCA Bible Class offered by the secretary. It is unclear whether the ship pictured is the USS Wyoming (BB-32) or the USS Wyoming (BM-10), but the former seems the more likely candidate.
Date:
[1902?–1947?]
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
Lantern Slide Collection
Subjects:
Young Men's Christian Association of North America
Lantern slides
Navies
Group portraits
Uniforms
Decks (Ships)
Extent:
3x4 in
Link to Item:
https://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/3625
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Notes:
The USS Wyoming (BB-32) sailed from 1912 to 1947. On February 6, 1918, it undertook its first wartime operation, escorting a convoy to Stavanger, Norway, in company with eight British destroyers. The USS Wyoming (BM-10) sailed from 1902 to 1926. In 1908, its name was changed to the USS Cheyenne, and during World War I, the ship was regulated to mostly submarine tending duties. The YMCA's broader volunteer service to the Armed Forces dates from April 1861, when a handful of YMCA volunteers aided soldiers stationed in temporary encampments on their way to the front. Later, growing numbers of volunteers accompanied soldiers to battlefields. Starting with the small "army committee" set up by the New York Association to extend preaching services, individual religious visitation, and publications to soldiers stationed outside New York City, the work soon grew to a cooperative venture by fifteen northern associations. Through its Militia Camp Program, the YMCA established the nation's first recreational, sports and counseling services for military personnel. In 1889, the YMCA established its first permanent Army YMCA, in Fort Monroe, Virginia. This work for soldiers and sailors was so highly regarded that the YMCA's central body, in 1898, established a permanent Army and Navy Committee.
Glass is cracked; Text on border reads, "Bible Class U.S. Ship Wyoming."
Identifier:
LS-02-60