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.
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