Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — In April 1861, as Confederate forces moved in on Gosport Navy Shipyard, the Union burned it down, ...

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 ...

More than 160 years after the USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina, new 3D images are offering a detailed look at an iconic Civil War ship that helped shape naval technology and marine ...

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 ...

During the Civil War’s Battle of Hampton Roads, the warship USS Monitor, known as “the little ship that saved the nation,” fought to preserve the Union blockade. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A federal grant will help conserve the iconic revolving gun turret of the USS Monitor. The Daily Press reports that the Institute of Museum and Library Services is giving more ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the nation’s most famous wartime shipwrecks is apparently still defending itself on the seafloor off Cape Hatteras, North ...

Prologue: first encounter -- "The Monitor is no more" -- Following new orders -- Facing the Cape -- Both ironclads in trouble -- Distress aboard Monitor -- "The Monitor is no more" -- Discovery -- ...