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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. [a] Monitor played a central role in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam ...
The Canonicus-class or Tippecanoe-class was a class of nine monitors built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.An improvement on the preceding Passaics, modified in accordance with war experience, each vessel mounted two 15-inch (381 mm) Dahlgren guns.
Civil War monitors of the United States include monitors designed, ... USS Monitor; USS Montauk (1862) N. USS Nahant (1862) USS Nantucket (1862) USS Neosho (1863) O.
The first five of these were ostensibly rebuilds of Civil War era monitors (in much the same way that the 1854 sloop-of-war Constellation was ostensibly a refit of the 1797 sail frigate Constellation). In fact, they were entirely new ships, much larger and more capable than the previous ones. Dates listed are the first commissioning dates.
In Latin, a monitor is someone who admonishes: that is, reminds others of their duties—which is how USS Monitor was given its name. [citation needed] It was designed by John Ericsson for emergency service in the Federal navy during the American Civil War (1861–65) to blockade the Confederate States from supply at sea. Ericsson designed her ...
Civil War monitors include monitors designed, built, or operated by participants in the American Civil War period (approximately 1860 to 1865). Subcategories.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley failed last month to mention slavery as the root cause of the Civil War. ... frustrated by the dynamic and have sought to turn the issue back on Democrats. ...
The Continental Iron Works was an American shipbuilding and engineering company founded in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland.It is best known for building a number of monitor warships for the United States Navy during the American Civil War, most notably the first of the type, USS Monitor.