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ROWAN torpedo boat (1899)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB8 Rowan 1 Moran, Seattle 6/1896 8.4.1898 4/1899 stricken 10.1912


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

182

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

51.8

Breadth, m

5.18

Draught, m

1.83 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VQE, 3 Mosher boilers

Power, h. p.

3200

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

coal 62

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

4 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 3 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

24



Standard scale images


<i>Rowan </i>1899
Rowan 1899


Project history

Authorised under the Act of 2.3.1895. Three funnels, the second and third far apart. Three single TT, to port and starboard of forward funnels and far aft. Raised forecastle.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Stricken in 1912 but not sold until 1918.