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TORPEDO SHIPS

ROWAN torpedo boat (1899)

Rowan 1899

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
  

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

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.

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