Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Tane Casserly provided a history of the USS Monitor, the CSS Virginia, and the Battle of Hampton Roads. This was a virtual event hosted by the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — It participated in one of the most famous Naval battles in American history. The ironclad USS Monitor fought to a draw with the CSS Virginia in 1862 in the waters of Hampton Roads ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – 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 ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — There's work happening to protect a piece of American history in Newport News. Crews are busy working to conserve the USS Monitor's Dahlgren guns at the Mariners' Museum. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two drowned Union sailors are finally going to be laid to rest 150 years after they went down with the USS Monitor in a storm off the coast of North Carolina. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus ...

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in shallow rivers ...

Erik Farrell stared down the barrel of the 8-ton Dahlgren gun, not fazed by the black water spewing onto his arms, face and curlicue mustache, focused instead on keeping the drill steady as he guided ...

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 ...

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