In April 1861, as Confederate forces moved in on Gosport Navy Shipyard, the Union burned it down, sinking its ships. The ...

Three-dimensional images and digital illustrations offer a detailed new look at the USS Monitor, an important Civil War ship that sank more than 160 years ago and has since become a reef.

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 ...

Over 160 years ago on March 9, 1862, one of the most famous naval battles in U.S. history took place between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia.

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.

American defense contractor Northrop Grumman and the (NOAA) released the highest resolution images to date of the USS Monitor.

Experts unveiled high-resolution sonar scans of the USS Monitor, captured by cutting-edge underwater technology at the ...

Although it now serves as a reef for marine life, researchers have always had trouble visiting the wreck to assess the ...

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.

The Battle of Hampton Roads / William C. Davis -- Building the ironclads / Craig L. Symonds -- Iron horse, iron coffin : life aboard the USS Monitor / David Mindell -- Sink before surrender : the ...

An underwater robot circled the wreck site of the USS Monitor to get new high-res images of the famous ship.

The Virginia museum that holds the turret of the sunken Civil War ironclad USS Monitor says it is closing the laboratory where the artifact is located because of a lack of federal funding. The ...