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 ...
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 ...
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 ...