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.

The USS Monitor Center of The Mariners’ Museum held a dedication ceremony honoring the USS Monitor’s Worthington pumps as historic engineering landmarks recognized by the American Society of ...

Conservators of the historic USS Monitor’s gun turret are using technology to look at the artifact in a new way — as a digital 3-D model. Automated Precision’s Newport News branch started laser ...

Nearly 155 years after one of America’s greatest naval engineers choose them for history’s first mechanized warship, two Worthington pumps recovered from the wreck of the Civil War ironclad USS ...

Nearly 154 years after the USS Monitor was lost at sea, a coat cast off by a desperate crewman trying to abandon the sinking Civil War ship has been conserved and placed on exhibit. The new display at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...