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 the CSS Virginia in 1862 in the waters of Hampton Roads only to sink to a watery grave ... NOAA and the Navy recovered the Monitor's gun turret in 2002.

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.

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, North ...

Turret of sunken Civil War ironclad rich in artifacts. Silver tableware, other galley items found in Monitor's gun emplacement. By LEE BOWMAN, SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE Dec 26, 2002.

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 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 ...

Ironclad claim to history. Troy mills provided metal for Civil War ship Monitor. ... with just 18 inches of freeboard visible above the waterline and a round gun turret protruding from the deck.