USS Monitor

USA / North Carolina / Ocracoke /
 shipwreck, American Civil War 1861-1865
USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy. She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which Monitor fought the ironclad CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy. ‘‘Monitor’’ was the first in a long line of Monitor-class U.S. warships
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor
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Coordinates:   35°0'6"N   75°24'23"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago