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USS Monitor model
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Built by contract with John Ericsson at Green Point, Long
Island, and launched January 30, 1862, the USS Monitor
saw its first naval action at Hampton Roads, Virginia,
on March 9, 1862. Against the CSS Virginia, which
was almost twice its size and had 10 guns as opposed to
the Monitor's 2 eleven-inch turret guns, the Monitor
proved to be a worthy opponent. The engagement ended in
a draw, but the end of the era of the wooden warship had
begun. The Monitor sank in a gale off the coast
of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on December 31, 1862. |
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Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces
History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
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