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About Thomas F. Rowland
Thomas Fitch Rowland was an American engineer and shipbuilder. In 1861, he founded the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which built ironclad warships for the United States Navy during the American Civil War, most notably USS Monitor, which successfully neutralized the threat from the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862.
Everything about Thomas F. Rowland →- Occupation
- engineer, shipbuilder
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 15, 1831
- Died
- December 13, 1907