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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ROWAN |
128288 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1909 |
23/04/1909 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| D & W Henderson & Co., Glasgow |
Meadowside |
467 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 1493 grt / 622 nrt / |
280.8 ft |
38 ft 1 in |
16.5 ft |
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| Engine builder |
D & W Henderson & Co., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw, T3cyl, (27, 45 & 73 - 36in) 185lb. 525NHP. engines amidships, 16 Knots |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Laird Line Ltd. Robertson Street, Glasgow. |
Glasgow |
18/06/1909 |
| Other names |
| 1914 HMS ROWAN - 1920 ROWAN |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 1914-1918 Commisioned as Armed Boarding Vessel. |
| Vessel history |
Laird Lines largest and finest steamer.
Sadly remembered for the "Rowan Disaster" |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1921 |
Collision 08/10/1921 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Left Glasgow 08/10/1921. Delayed at Greenock awaiting arrival of Southern Synchopated Orchestra, American Jazz Band touring British Music Halls. Approaching Corsewall Point in thick fog, lights of another steamer, turns to starboard but struck on stern by US Ship WEST CAMAK inwards for Glasgow. Passengers given lifejackets and as preparing to abandon ship ROWAN swings across channel and is struck on starboard side by CLAN MALCOLM which had been following ROWAN out of Glasgow. ROWAN sinks quickly. 77 Rescued but 36 lost including Capt Brown.and the wife of Will Fyfe and several of the jazz band. ROWAN to blame for first collision (speed in fog and failure to sound whistle). Half to blame for second collision (failure to sound whistle as a vessel stopped in the water). Burn's WOODCOCK at the rescue. |
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ROWAN
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HMS Rowan, Malta 1919
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HMS Rowan
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