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. (AP) – 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 ...

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

On the C-SPAN Networks: Anna Holloway is a Vice President for Collections and Programs in the Mariners' Museum with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2012 Speech as ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia museum that is home to the USS Monitor’s turret is offering a macabre invitation: the opportunity to be inside the revolving gun housing of the Civil War ironclad on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...