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

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.

Here’s What You Need to Know: The ironclad Sphinx lived a colorful life. It has long been common for aging warships to be retired but then sold to another nation for continued service – and that was ...

On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi River. Protected by iron or steel armor plates, ironclads held a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The warship spent the next two years in the Washington Navy Yard, until it was seen by a Japanese purchasing agent that had been sent by the Japanese Tokugawa ...

A Currier and Ives lithograph of the battle between the Monitor and the Virginia. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images As dawn broke over Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March ...

Introduction -- 1. Confederate naval activity in Europe: the first phase, 1861 -- 2. The first cruisers: January-July 1862 -- 3. The hope-filled era: first ironclad construction, July-December 1862 -- ...