Dive into the history of the USS Monitor, the ironclad warship that revolutionized naval warfare during the American Civil War. Designed by John Ericsson and launched in 1862, this vessel changed the ...

The ironclad USS Monitor fought to a draw with ... NOAA and the Navy recovered the Monitor's gun turret in 2002. Now, 17 years later, a significant milestone in the conservation of the turret ...

Scientists exploring the gun turret of the Civil War ironclad Monitor, recovered just off the coast of North Carolina in August, have found two skeletons, one with a gold wedding band, the team said.

HATTERAS, N.C. -- The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised Monday from the floor of the Atlantic, nearly 140 years after the warship sank during a storm.

The museum houses its revolving turret, steam engine, and other components. The CSS Neuse is another ironclad you can visit, at to the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Museum in Kinston ...

The turret, with its eight layers of iron armor ... The Monitor and the Confederate ironclad Merrimac (CSS Virginia) fought to a draw in March 1862, but their engagement demonstrated to the ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank ...

Nobody had ever seen an armored naval vessel like it, more submarine than ship, with just 18 inches of freeboard visible above the waterline and a round gun turret ... War's first ironclad ships ...