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The USS Merrimac had been s ship of the US (Union) Navy. She was in drydock at the Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia when the Rebels were about to capture the Navy Yard, so the withdrawing Union sailors set her on fire, and she burned down to the waterline. The Rebels took what was left of her and built their ironclad on top of the remains, which was the bottom of the ship and its engines. This new vessel looked nothing like the old Merrimac and was renamed the CSS Virginia. So the battle of the ironclads was really the Monitor versus the Virginia. But it sounds so much cooler to be alliterative so the newspaper headlines were "Monitor vs. Merrimac", which had the additional virtue of not recognizing anything the southern government did, such as renaming the remnants of Union ships whose wreckage passed into their hands, on top of which they had built a completely different type of ship.
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Is the monitor a union ship or confederate ship?
The Monitor was a Union warship. It fought the Merrimac(k) and lost on March 9 1862
How many union ships did the Merrimac sink?
The Merrimac sunk 2 ships in the Hampton Roads.
What was the name of the first Southern ironclad ship?
The Merrimac
What was the ironclad ship during the civil war in the north?
The Merrimac
What is the name of the first union ironclad?
The first practical Union ironclad was the USS Monitor. While the Monitor carried only two guns, they were superior to the fixed broadsides of the Confederate CSS Virginia (the original name of the ship was "Merrimac", which is how the ship is widely known) because the Monitor's guns were in a rotating turret which could be aimed in any direction. The fixed cannon of the Virginia could be turned only slightly; in order to turn the guns, they needed to turn the ship.
Is the monitor a union ship or confederate ship?
The Monitor was a Union warship. It fought the Merrimac(k) and lost on March 9 1862
What ship captured by the south?
Merrimac
How many union ships did the Merrimac sink?
The Merrimac sunk 2 ships in the Hampton Roads.
What was the name of the first Southern ironclad ship?
The Merrimac
What was the merrimac n the civil war?
Yes a ship.
Was the CSS Virginia an ironclad?
Yes, it was. It was the true name of the Confederate ironclad known as the Merrimac from the "Monitor and the Merrimac" battle. The Confederacy took a wooden ship formerly known as the Merrimac and put the iron armour on it. The ship was rechristened The CSS Virginia.
What were the to ironclad ships in the civil war?
The Merrimac(the south's ship) and the Monitor(the North's ship)
Which ship won in the battle of monitor vs merrimac?
It was a draw.
What was the ironclad ship during the civil war in the north?
The Merrimac
How were the Merrimac and the Monitor different from other ships of their time?
They were called ironclads because instead of being made entirely of wood, they had metal sheeting over the top of the ships. The Monitor looked more like a submarine than a ship.. The "deck" was barely above the water and it had a round turret that could swivel and fire a cannon. The other ship was named The Merrimac and looked as if a regular wooden ship had a metal tent across the decks. It also had cannons. Both ships saw action in the American War Between the States. They fought each other in March of 1862 and neither ship won. But since the Union Monitor prevented the CSA's Merrimac from running the Union blockade of Hampton Roads, Virginia, the Monitor is considered the winning side. The Merrimac was not intended to run the Union blocade, but to ruin the Union blockade by destroying the Union warships so the blocade runners could travel to the CSA from Europe unopposed. The Union had five warships at Hampton Roads, and the Merrimac destroyed two of them before the Monitor arrived to defend the third ship. As another difference, the French and British navies each had an ironclad before the war began, but they had sails in addition to steam power. The Monitor and Merrimac were the first major warships powered by steam only. The US Navy specified sails for the Monitor, but John Ericsson ignored the specification.
Union commander in battle Monitor v Merrimac?
Catesby Jones
What was the first us ship without sails?
USS Charleston
