Three-dimensional images and digital illustrations offer a detailed new look at the USS Monitor, an important Civil War ship ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In April of 1861, as Confederate forces moved in on Gosport Navy Shipyard, the Union burned it down, sinking its ships. The ...

More than 160 years after the historic clash that changed naval warfare, the USS Monitor is still revealing new details about its story. On Saturday, experts gathered at The Mariners’ Museum and Park ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — For the first time since it sank more than 160 years ago, the public is getting a high-definition look at the Civil War’s most famous ironclad. New 3D sonar images of 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 ...

One of the nation’s most famous wartime shipwrecks is apparently still defending itself on the seafloor off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, researchers say. New high-solution sonar images captured by ...

RICHMOND, Va.—A century and a half after USS Monitor sank, the interment of two unknown crewmen found in the Civil War ironclad’s turret is bringing together people from across the country with ...

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 ...