USS Rowan (DD-64)
USS Rowan (DD-64)
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| Name: | USS Rowan (DD-64) |
| Namesake: | Named for Vice Admiral Stephen C. Rowan (1805-1890). |
| Laid down: | 10 May 1915 |
| Launched: | 23 March 1916 |
| Commissioned: | 22 August 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 June 1922 |
| Struck: | 7 January 1936 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 20 April 1939 |
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| Class and type: | Sampson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,111 tons (normal), 1,225 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 315 ft 3 in (96.1 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 7 in (9.3 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 9 in (3.3 m) |
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| Speed: | 29.5 knots (55 km/h) |
| Complement: | 99 officers and crew |
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USS Rowan (DD-64) was a Sampson-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named for Vice Admiral Stephen C. Rowan (1805–1890).
Rowan was laid down on 10 May 1915 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts; launched 23 March 1916, sponsored by Miss Louise McL. Ayres, great-niece of Admiral Rowan; and commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts on 22 August 1916, Lieutenant William R. Purnell in command.
Following shakedown, Rowan, based at Newport, Rhode Island, operated along the Atlantic coast during the fall of 1916, then participated in winter exercises in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. At Norfolk, Virginia, when the United States entered World War I, she patrolled off the mouth of the York River, and then repaired at New York. On 7 May 1917, she departed Boston for Ireland, arriving with Division 7 at Queenstown on the 27th.
From then, through the remainder of the war, Rowan conducted antisubmarine patrols and escorted convoys to both British and French ports. On 28 May 1918, she joined two other destroyers in attacking a U-boat; dropped 14 depth charges; and had the satisfaction of watching oil cover the surface in the attack area.
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