On March 8, 1862, a large, slow-moving and unwieldy Confederate ship steamed toward the blockading Union vessels posted at Hampton Roads, outside of Virginia’s James River. The rebels made a beeline ...
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The Battle of Hampton Roads Killed Wooden Warships Once and For All
Hampton Roads was the first time in military history that two ironclad warships squared off. March 8-9, 2025, marked the ...
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Luisa Vasquez-Lopez and Brandan Adams from The Mariners Museum and Park joined HRS to talk about their upcoming event commemorating the infamous battle between the USS Monitor ...
"I continued doing it until I was married and then thought maybe it was childish, so I quit doing it," he acknowledged. But one day Bowers, vice president of information systems for Northwest Iowa ...
When he wasn't designing warships, John Ericsson was dreaming up solar technology. The Swedish American inventor, credited with the screw propeller and the first ironclad vessel in the U.S. Navy, ...
Let’s start by clarifying the whole “Merrimack” (alternate spelling “Merrimac,” sans the “k”) vs. “Virginia” nomenclature/semantics. This vessel ...
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