Class Rowan

1908, Torpedo Fleet in San Diego Harbor - US Navy ships become a common sight in San Diego Harbor after 1846. This 1908 post card shows, from right to left Torpedo Boats TB11 USS FARAGUT, TB20 USS GOLDBOROUGH and TB8 USS ROWAN. The far left boat is not identified. Photo Courtesy of the San Diego Navy Historical Association
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After trials in Puget Sound, Rowan was decomissioned on 1 May 1899. She was recommissioned on 23 April 1908 and on 21 June she departed Bremerton, Wash., 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.

Black and White copy of the Post Card1908, Torpedo Fleet in San Diego Harbor - US Navy ships become a common sight in San Diego Harbor after 1846. This 1908 post card shows, from right to left Torpedo Boats TB11 USS FARAGUT, TB20 USS GOLDBOROUGH and TB8 USS ROWAN. The far left boat is not identified. Photo Courtesy of the San Diego Navy Historical Association
To download a larger version of theUSS ROWAN TB-8 click on the Photo

Black and White copy of the Post Card
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This is a 1915 post card of the USS ROWAN TB 8 in San Diego Harbor. The card courtesy of John Shaw USS ROWAN Historn.

Black and White copy of the back of the Post Card showing the TB8
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This is a back of the 1915 post card of the USS ROWAN TB 8 in San Diego Harbor. The card courtesy of John Shaw USS ROWAN Historn.

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