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.

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 ...

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 ...

A crew of workers from Newport News Shipbuilding worked Friday at The Mariners’ Museum on the task of removing — and ultimately replacing — the support structure that has sat beneath the historic gun ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of the 150th anniversary of the USS Monitor and the legendary Battle of Hampton Roads, the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., hosted a commemorative program in collaboration with the ...

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 ...

Hannah Fleming, material culture specialist, and Elsa Sangouard, senior conservator, at The Mariners' Museum and Park in Newport News connect the threads of an artifact linked to a famous American ...