Early in the Civil War, two ironclad ships faced off in a battle that would change naval warfare forever. What made ironclad ...

USS Essex is the second ship in the Wasp-class of multipurpose amphibious assault ships and the fifth ship named for Essex County, Massachusetts. Essex was a 1000-ton ironclad river gunboat of the ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia! Senator ...

As dawn broke over Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862, the Confederate Navy ironclad CSS Virginia left the Gosport Naval Yard and sailed toward the grounded Union frigate USS Minnesota.

USS Essex is the second ship in the Wasp-class of multipurpose amphibious assault ships and the fifth ship named for Essex County, Massachusetts. Essex was a 1000-ton ironclad river gunboat of the ...

And before that, it was in the rotating turret of the famed Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, battling its Confederate counterpart, the CSS Virginia, in the Battle of Hampton Roads, just miles from ...