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Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is the site of the wreck of the USS Monitor, one of the most famous shipwrecks in U.S. history.It was designated as the country's first national marine sanctuary on February 5, 1975, [2] and is one of only two of the seventeen [3] national marine sanctuaries created to protect a cultural resource rather than a natural resource.
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 whole category of monitors took its name from the first of these, USS Monitor, designed in 1861 by John Ericsson. They were low-freeboard, steam-powered ironclad vessels, with one or two rotating armored turrets, rather than the traditional broadside of guns. The low freeboard meant that these ships were unsuitable for ocean-going duties ...
Killed in action, body not recovered [3] February 25: Morgan, William J: Major: US Army: Adviser, Military Region 1, CORDS: South Vietnam, Da Nang: Passenger on UH-1H #69-15391 that hit the fantail of USS John R. Craig and crashed into Da Nang Harbour [7] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] March 7: Howell, Carter A: First lieutenant: USAF
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Louis Napoleon Stodder (February 12, 1837 – October 8, 1911) was a U.S. Navy officer who served in the American Civil War as acting master on the famous USS Monitor when it fought the Merrimack [a] at Hampton Roads on March 8–9, 1862.
The 80th anniversary of one of World War II’s strangest sagas — the sinking of the USS Cythera off North Carolina — came and went without notice in 2022, largely because the mystery remains ...
Under cover of darkness, with four companions, he recovered the body and brought it within the Union lines, having approached within a few feet of the Confederate pickets while so engaged. Grave is located at Oakwood Cemetery (Niagara Falls, New York) Medal of Honor winner: Peter Williams: Navy: Seaman USS Monitor: USS Monitor: March 9, 1862