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| Title | Torpedo boat ROWAN, ca. 1900 |
| Photographer | Van Olinda, Oliver S. |
| Date | ca. 1900 |
| Notes | In 1897, a government contract was let to Robert Moran of Seattle for the construction of a torpedo boat, the ROWAN, for the U.S. Navy. The ROWAN was launched in 1898, the first steel fighting ship to be built for the government on Puget Sound (pg. 21 and pg. 34) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).
Handwritten on image: 1895
Caption from album: Torpedo boat "Rowan, " 1895
PH Coll 376.40C |
| Subjects | Rowan (Torpedo boat)
Torpedo boats--Washington (State)--Vashon Island
Canoes--Washington (State)--Vashon Island
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Vashon Island |
| Digital Collection | Oliver S. Van Olinda Photographs
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| Order Number | VAN256 |
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| Negative Number | UW19348 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Oliver S. Van Olinda Photograph Collection. PH Coll 376
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2002. |
