During the Civil War’s Battle of Hampton Roads, the warship USS Monitor, known as “the little ship that saved the nation,” fought to preserve the Union blockade. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
The vessel is submerged 240 feet deep off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Northrop Grumman On December 31, 1862, the USS Monitor—the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad warship—sailed into a storm ...