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USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy.
The Civil War Monitor is a quarterly magazine devoted to portraying American Civil War history from a variety of perspectives.
5 lip 2019 · USS Monitor był pancernikiem z czasów wojny secesyjnej, który wziął udział w pierwszej bitwie między pancernymi okrętami wojennymi w Hampton Roads 9 marca 1862 roku.
USS Monitor – okręt pancerny amerykański Marynarki Wojennej Unii z okresu wojny secesyjnej; pierwszy okręt świata z uzbrojeniem umieszczonym w obrotowej wieży artyleryjskiej. Od jego nazwy pochodzi nazwa całej klasy wzorowanych na jego konstrukcji jednostek – monitorów.
A monitor is a relatively small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the First World War and with limited use in the Second World War. The original monitor was designed in 1861 by John Ericsson, who named it USS Monitor.
On March 9, 1862, the Civil War battle of Hampton Roads between the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) heralded the beginning of a new era in naval warfare. Though indecisive, the battle marked the change from wood and sail to iron and steam.
Dive 230 feet below the Atlantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast on one of our nation’s most historic shipwrecks, USS Monitor. This Civil War ironclad sank in 1862, and in 1975, it became the first national marine sanctuary – Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.
