Three-dimensional images and digital illustrations offer a detailed new look at the USS Monitor, an important Civil War ship that sank more than 160 years ago and has since become a reef.

State-of-the-art technology has revealed the 19th-century wreckage site of the USS Monitor in stunning new highest resolution images.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released highlights from its 2025 survey of the USS Monitor, the iconic prototype ironclad warship that sank during the Civil War.

On December 31, 1862, the USS Monitor—the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad warship—sailed into a storm and sank off the coast of North Carolina. Now, more than 160 years later, experts have produced the ...

During the Civil War’s Battle of Hampton Roads, the warship USS Monitor, known as “the little ship that saved the nation,” ...

New high-resolution sonar images and interactive virtual models are providing an unprecedented look at the wreck of the Civil ...

On March 9, Northrop Grumman, in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), released never-before-seen high resolution images of the historic USS Monitor.

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Experts unveiled high-resolution sonar scans of the USS Monitor, captured by cutting-edge underwater technology at the ...

American defense contractor Northrop Grumman and the (NOAA) released the highest resolution images to date of the USS Monitor.

In April 1861, as Confederate forces moved in on Gosport Navy Shipyard, the Union burned it down, sinking its ships. The ...

NOAA and Northrop Grumman will release the first-ever high definition sonar images of the USS Monitor shipwreck site during a ...