the uss monitor was used once in battle and then sunk shortly after in a wavy storm.
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The USS Monitor was a Union warship of radical design. Its detractors gave it the nickname of the "cheesebox on a raft".
The cost of building the USS Monitor was $275,000. This was a large amount of money for 1861.
The construction of the USS Monitor began at the beginning of October 25, 1861. On January 30, 1862 the ironclad was launched.
The USS Monitor had a ships complement of 59 Officers and men while the CSS Virginia was manned by 320 Officers and men. This represented the significant differences in armament : Virginia carried 12 guns compared to Monitor's turret armament of only 2 eleven-inch guns.
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USS Monitor was created on 1862-02-25.
$275,000 was spent for the construction of the USS Monitor.
16 of the 62 crew were lost
The USS Monitor was commissioned on January 30, 1862.
The USS Monitor was built in a shipyard in New York. Its designer was John Ericsson, an inventor for the Union.
The USS Monitor was a Union warship of radical design. Its detractors gave it the nickname of the "cheesebox on a raft".
The cost of building the USS Monitor was $275,000. This was a large amount of money for 1861.
The construction of the USS Monitor began at the beginning of October 25, 1861. On January 30, 1862 the ironclad was launched.
The first ironclad of the North was the USS Monitor. Afterwards it built many ironclad ships, many based on the design of the Monitor.
Based on the blueprints of the USS Monitor, ship building pioneer, Donald McKay built monitor type ironclads for the Union's navy during the US Civil War.
The USS Monitor and the USS Merrimac were both vessels in the US Navy. They did not fight. The Merrimac was sunk at the beginning of the war. The Confederate Navy took the remains of the Merrimac and used it to create the Ironclad CSS Virginia. The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought a battle near Hampton Roads Virginia.