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The alliteration of Monitor and Merrimack has persuaded most popular accounts to adopt the familiar name, even when it is acknowledged to be technically incorrect. A CSS Merrimac [93] did actually exist. She was a paddle wheel steamer named for the victor (as most Southerners saw it) at Hampton Roads.
Depiction of the ironclads at the Battle of Hampton Roads, Monitor on the right. At the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, Williams stood at the ship's wheel and steered Monitor throughout an engagement with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly known as Merrimack). This battle represented the first meeting in combat of two ...
Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of CSS Virginia from the remains of USS Merrimack and the battle between Virginia and USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862 – March 9, 1862.
USS Merrimack, also improperly Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia then took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads (also known as "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack ") in the first engagement between ironclad ...
Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad.. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...
Four goals, four red cards and a last-gasp equalizer that will go down in English soccer lore. It was quite the wild ride in the 120th and final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park on Wednesday.
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106.
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 ...