NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Exactly 145 years after the USS Monitor faced the Confederate ship CSS Virginia in the first clash of ironclads, a $30 million center dedicated to the Union vessel opened Friday.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Nearly 154 years after the USS Monitor was lost at sea, a coat cast off by a desperate crewman ...

identify artifacts recovered from the wreck of the USS Monitor. off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). high-energy X-ray machine. for ship construction. beneath ...

RICHMOND, Va. — When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the hulk of the Union Civil War ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X NEWPORT NEWS — More than 15 years after Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists recovered the historic ...

As part of the 150th anniversary of the USS Monitor and the legendary Battle of Hampton Roads, the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., hosted a commemorative program in collaboration with the ...

Hannah Fleming, material culture specialist, and Elsa Sangouard, senior conservator, at The Mariners' Museum and Park in Newport News connect the threads of an artifact linked to a famous American ...

For almost 140 years, the gun turret of the USS Monitor sat at the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina — so what’s a little more time when it comes to the meticulous ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil ...

Nearly 154 years after the USS Monitor was lost at sea, a coat cast off by a desperate crewman trying to abandon the sinking Civil War ship has been conserved and placed on exhibit. The new display at ...