Vessel Profile

Rowland H. Wilcox

Rowland H. Wilcox
Photo: For Posterity Sake Website

Story

This fishboat, trawler was built in 1911 by Robert Palmer & Son in Noank, CT.

Owners & Masters

She was a New England menhaden fishing vessel owned by USA interests.

She was acquired as a Canadian Naval Patrol Trawler. After the First World War naval service she resumed her original name, and was sold into private hands and resumed fishing.

Masters

Skipper John J. Smith RCN (1917);

Armament

1-12pdr gun

References

  • Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981)
  • Freeman, David J. (2000)
  • Merchant Vessels of the United States (1912)
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