HMS Rowena

	Sistership HMS Romola and two other R-class destroyers
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Rowena
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Yard number	450
Laid down	25 August 1915
Launched	1 July 1916
Commissioned	29 September 1916
Decommissioned	27 January 1937
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics
Class & type	R-class destroyer
Displacement	975 long tons (991 t) normal; 1,173 long tons (1,192 t) deep load;
Length	265 ft (80.8 m) p.p.
Beam	26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught	9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
Propulsion	3 Yarrow boilers; 2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW);
Speed	36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h)
Range	3,440 nmi (6,370 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX; 1 × single 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" Mk. II anti-aircraft gun; 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×2);

HMS Rowena was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. Launched on 1 July 1916, the ship operated as part of the Grand Fleet as part of a destroyer flotilla hunting for German vessels that were attacking convoys in the North Sea. Although there were many reported sightings, no submarines were sunk. After the conflict, the vessel was transferred to the Navy’s establishment at Portland to help in the development of anti-submarine warfare, which ultimately helped in the Battle of the Atlantic. Rowena did not, however, see the fruit of this labour. After twenty years of service, the destroyer was retired and sold to be broken up on 27 January 1937.