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Spirit of America Celebrate 250: USS Monitor
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — In April 1861, as Confederate forces moved in on Gosport Navy Shipyard, the Union burned it down, sinking its ships. The Confederacy salvaged what they could of the USS ...
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“Water is reaching the boilers” the night America’s USS Monitor went down
The USS Monitor was one of the most revolutionary warships ever built in America. Designed during the American Civil War, it featured a rotating gun turret and heavy iron armor, something never seen ...
Three-dimensional images and digital illustrations offer a detailed new look at the USS Monitor, an important Civil War ship ...
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 ...
The Union’s USS Monitor is considered by many to be the most famous ironclad ship of the American Civil War, if not the most famous ship of any kind. It shares the honor with its archnemesis, the ...
“With all the archival data and that real archaeological data coming together, we’ve built the most accurate virtual model ever of Monitor, and I'm not just talking just the shell of it. Every single ...
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