Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works was an American

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and

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company located in

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from about 1893 until it went into

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in 1900. Its plant was destroyed by fire on June 22, 1902. It built three of the early torpedo boats, the USS ''Davis'', the USS ''Fox'', and the USS ''Goldsborough'' for the

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