USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy.

A monitor is a relatively small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the …

The USS Monitor Center houses the award-winning exhibit Ironclad Revolution as well as the largest and most advanced conservation lab of any maritime museum in the world, The Batten …

On March 9, 1862, the Civil War battle of Hampton Roads between the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) heralded the beginning of a new era in naval …

Dive 230 feet below the Atlantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast on one of our nation’s most historic shipwrecks, USS Monitor. This Civil War ironclad sank in 1862, and in 1975, it became …

2024年7月3日 · USS Monitor’s steam engine room represents the earliest and most complete steamship engine room ever archaeologically raised. This includes John Ericsson’s 20-ton …

Imagine the crew's surprise when they saw the unfamiliar outline of Monitor in the distance. The clash of the ironclads was about to begin. The battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS …