As dawn broke over Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862, the Confederate Navy ironclad CSS Virginia left the Gosport Naval Yard and sailed toward the grounded Union frigate USS Minnesota. The day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The idea of armoring ships was ancient, and gained serious attention from the dawn of muskets and cannons at sea. In the 16th and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi ...

It has long been common for aging warships to be retired but then sold to another nation for continued service – and that was certainly true of many combat vessels built during the Second World War as ...

Erik Farrell stands beside one of the USS Monitor's eight-ton, Civil War-era Dahlgren guns. Courtesy of the Mariners’ Museum and Park Naval warfare changed on March 9, 1862, when two ironclad ...

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 ...

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 rusted hulk of the Union Civil ...

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 ...