The Continental Iron Works was an American shipbuilding and engineering company founded in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland. It is best known for building a number of monitor warship
Continental Iron Works, c. 1900
Puritan on the ways at the Continental Iron Works
A double planer invented by Rowland for fast planing of armor plate
Louis Napoleon Stodder was a U.S. Navy officer who served in the American Civil War as acting master on the famous USS Monitor when it fought the Merrimack at Hampton Roads on March 8–9, 1862. He is a
1865 photo of Acting Master Stodder (unknown photographer)
Engraving of Monitor sinking