| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | MS Trawler |
| Class | |
| Pennant | |
| Built by | Cook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | 14 Mar, 1918 |
| Commissioned | Aug, 1939 |
| Lost | 9 Feb, 1940 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Completed on 4 July 1918. Sold into commercial service after the First World War. Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939. Displacement: 290 tons. Dimensions: 125.5ft L , 23.6ft B, 12.7ft D. Engine: Amos&Smith 480ihp, 10.5 knots. HMT Robert Bowen (Lt. A.S. Wilson, RNVR) was sunk by German aircraft off Aberdeen, Scotland on 9 February 1940. |
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