On March 9, 1862, Confederate Navy ship CSS Virginia and Union navy ship USS Monitor met in battle off the coast of Virginia. Their clash was inconclusive, but the battle was the first time metal ...

Silverware and other treasures recovered from the turret of the Union ironclad USS Monitor -- plus a wealth of other artifacts relating to its famous Civil War clash with the CSS Virginia (a.k.a.

The Battle of the Ironclads in Hampton Roads nearly 150 years ago not only made naval history, it also created a new motif in popular culture. At the Mariners Museum in Newport News, where the USS ...

HATTERAS, N.C. - The steam engine from the USS Monitor was brought to the surface Monday, 138 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad went down in a storm. A crane aboard a 300-foot oceangoing ...

"Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history of the amazing ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War. From the ship's inventor, who had a history of blowing things up and only 100 days to complete his ...

Missing from the story on the USS Monitor ["For Civil War Veteran, A Painstaking Rehabilitation," Style, Dec. 1] was mention of the historic warship's designer and builder, Swedish-born engineer John ...