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Willet Rowe

 

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Willet Rowe—a wooden-hulled, side-wheel steamer built at Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1863—was taken over by the Navy for service as a gunboat and purchased on 16 October 1863. Soon thereafter, she was renamed Iris (q.v.).