December 31, 1862 was the date that it sank.
Yes. That's why it was called 'USS'. Ships of the Confederate Navy were 'CSS'.
16 of the 62 crew were lost
The USS Monitor was the first Union ironclad warship.
This ship was the USS Monitor. She became famous after duelling inconclusively with the Merrimack, or CSS Virginia, on March 9th 1863 off Hampton Roads, Virginia.
The Spanish American war, the newspapers accused Spain for sinking the Maine, when acctually something happened in the boiler room, that's what made it sink.
USS Monitor was created on 1862-02-25.
$275,000 was spent for the construction of the USS Monitor.
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None. One died on the Virginia however. Note that the Monitor did not sink during the battle. It sunk in a storm when it was being towed for repairs.
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 used once in battle and then sunk shortly after in a wavy storm.
Yes they did =]
off the coast of porters island in the Atlantic ocean. Discovered in the 1973 by a group consisting of ngc, the state of North Carolina and other personel.
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.