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 ...

USS Essex – homeported in San Diego ... Weighing about 1,000 tons – or 2,000,000 pounds – the ironclad river gunboat served the U.S. Army and later the U.S. Navy during the American ...

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 ...

How does Syracuse connect to the USS Monitor, the famous Civil War ironclad ship? The Monitor's been in the news recently as historians try to identify two skeletons found in the ship's turret ...

The order to abandon ship came just after midnight. The USS Monitor, a Union ironclad, was taking on too much water, caught in a violent storm. At approximately 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, 1862 ...