YES. IT FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF HAMPTON RHODES AGAINST THE IRONCLAD MERRIMAC IN THE WORLDS FIRST BATTLE OF IRONCLAD SHIPS
The Monitor was an ironclad ship created by the Union to battle against the Confederate ironclad called the Virginia (Merrimack).
Did you know that a Swedish engineer designed the Monitor, an ironclad ship in the Civil War? A+
The Merrimac(the south's ship) and the Monitor(the North's ship)
The first Ironclad ship ever made was by the northern states during the civil war was named the Monitor.
The Confederate ship was called the Merrimack and the Union ship was called the Monitor.
The Confederacy's Ship (Merrimack) And the Union's Ironclad Ship (Monitor)
The USS Monitor was a Union, United States ship.
The Union Ironclad ship was the Monitor. The Confederate ship was the Virginia.
Monitor
The Union Ironclad Ship that was built to compete with the Confederate Ironclad was called the U.S.S. Monitor and the Confederate Ironclad was called the Merrimack (more accurately, the CSS Virginia).
The SOUTHERN ironclad ship was the Merrimac, which was also called the Virginia.
The Confederates had a ship called an Ironclad (one of the inventions of the Civil War) and this Ironclad ship was called the Merrimac. If you don't trust this answer then don't blame me, because that's what we learned in school.