At flood-tide on the morning of Aug. 5, 1864, more than 150 years ago, one of the most famous battles in U.S. Navy history began. Union commander Adm. David Farragut took 18 ships in a dash through a ...
On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi River. Protected by iron or steel armor plates, ironclads held a ...
HATTERAS, N.C. - The steam engine from the USS Monitor was brought to the surface Monday, 138 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad went down in a storm. A crane aboard a 300-foot oceangoing ...
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