U.S.S. Rowan (1898)

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U.S.S. Rowan (1898)
Hull Number: TB-8
Builder: Moran Brothers Shipyard[1]
Ordered: Act of 2 March, 1895[2]
Laid down: 22 Jun, 1896[3]
Launched: 8 Apr, 1898[4]
Commissioned: 1 Apr, 1899[5]
Decommissioned: 28 Oct, 1912[6]
Stricken: 29 Oct, 1912[7]
Sold: 3 Jun, 1918[8]

U.S.S. Rowan was a torpedo boat completed for the U.S. Navy in 1899.

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

Construction

Service

Rowan was commissioned on 1 April, 1899 under the command of Lieutenant Reginald F. Nicholson.

After just one month of trials in Puget Sound, she was decommissioned on 1 May.

Rowan was recommissioned on 23 April, 1908. On 21 June, she departed Bremerton, Washington for Mare Island Navy Yard. For the next year she cruised off the United States West Coast, from the Canadian border to Magdalena Bay, Mexico, as a unit of the 3rd Torpedo Flotilla. Then assigned to the Reserve Torpedo Group at Mare Island, she resumed operations with the torpedo flotilla in December 1909 and continued that duty until 1912.

Rowan was decommissioned at Mare Island on 28 October 1912. Her name was struck from the Navy list the following day and her hulk was sold for scrap on 3 June, 1918.

Armament

  • four 1-pdr guns
  • three 18-in torpedo tubes, one on centreline aft, and one on each broadside between second and third funnels

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 37.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 37.
  8. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 37.
  9. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 48.
  10. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 50.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.


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