USS Rowan (TB-8)

From SpottingWorld, the Hub for the SpottingWorld network...
USS Rowan
The USS Rowan in port, circa the late 1890s or early 1900s.
Career (U.S.) 100x35px
Ordered: 2 March 1895 (authorised)
Builder: Moran Brothers Co. Seattle, WA
Laid down: 22 June 1896
Launched: 8 April 1898
Commissioned: 1 April 1899
Decommissioned: 28 October 1912
Struck: 29 October 1912
Fate: sold for scrap, 3 June 1918
General characteristics
Displacement: 182 tons
Length: 170 ft (52 m)
Beam: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Draft: 6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion: 3 Mosher boilers, 2-shaft vertical quadruple expansion engines, 3,200 ihp (2,355 kW)
Speed: 26 kn
Complement: 24 officers and enlisted
Armament: 4 × 1-pounder guns
3 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

The first USS Rowan (Torpedo Boat No. 8/TB-8) was a torpedo boat in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. She was named for Vice Admiral Stephen Rowan.

Rowan was laid down on 22 June 1896 by Moran Brothers Company, Seattle, Washington; launched 8 April 1898; sponsored by Mrs. Edward Moale, Jr.; and commissioned on 1 April 1899, Lieutenant Reginald F. Nicholson in command.

After trials in Puget Sound, Rowan was decommissioned on 1 May 1899. She was recommissioned on 23 April 1908 and on 21 June she departed Bremerton, Washington, for Mare Island. For the next year she cruised off the west coast, from the Canadian border to Magdalena Bay, Mexico, as a unit of the 3d 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.

References

External links