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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — When the turret of the USS Monitor was hoisted from the ocean floor in 2002, the real heavy lifting was just beginning: conserving and restoring more than 200 tons of Civil War ...

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.

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 ...