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 naval battle during the American Civil War that involved the clash between the USS Merrimack and the USS Monitor was the Battle of Hampton Roads.
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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 first ironclad of the North was the USS Monitor. Afterwards it built many ironclad ships, many based on the design of the Monitor.
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 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.
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.