The long-term impact of the battle was more profound, however. When her conversion was almost complete, her name was officially changed to Virginia. It was commissioned on February 25, 1862, and arrived at Chesapeake Bay just in time to engage the Virginia. The Virginia broke free, and steamed slowly into the James River. This website was funded in part by the Henry L. & Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation and by a grant from National Maritime Heritage Grant funding from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, administered by the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. The Monitor saved the fleet from further destruction and kept the Virginia trapped in Hampton Roads. All parties continued to use the name after her capture by secessionists while she was being rebuilt as an ironclad. Help save a crucial 22-acre tract on the battlefield where 14 African American soldiers earned the highest military honor in the land. Written by Anna Gibson Holloway, former curator of the USS Monitor Center, In early March 1862, construction crews in Brooklyn, New York and Portsmouth, Virginia were rushing to complete two vessels of radically different designs. Der Turm, die Kanonen und die Dampfmaschine des Schiffes wurden in mehreren Expeditionen geborgen und sind derzeit im USS Monitor Center in Newport News ausgestellt, wo sich ebenfalls eine Replik des Schiffes befindet.[2]. Of added significance is the page two report on the Monitor versus Merrimac with heads: "Iron Clad Ships" "Their Great Value as Vessels-of-War" "The Great Trial Battle Between the Monitor and Merrimac" "The Great Trial Battle" followed by a great deal of text. Fact #1: The CSS Virginia and USS Monitor were not the first ironclad warships, but they were the first ironclads to battle against one another. The men of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, who had grown weary of waiting for the Virginia to come out, now scrambled to prepare for battle. “There isn’t enough danger to give us glory,” lamented William Keeler, Paymaster of the USS Monitor, to his wife. Other Names:Monitor vs. Virginia (Merrimack), Battle of the Ironclads. Buchanan, who had been selected by Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory for his aggressive tendencies, was determined to make the Virginia's first voyage an attack on the nearby Union navy. He hoped that the Virginia could then continue on and ravage the coastal cities of the Union. Den Rumpf dieses Schiffes verwendeten sie nun als Grundlage für ihr Panzerschiff Virginia (im Norden weiterhin als Merrimack bekannt), das mit einem 10 cm stark gepanzerten Deck und einer Kasematte versehen wurde. The American Battlefield Trust and our members have saved more than 53,000 acres in 24 states! Courtesy of the Mariners Museum and artist Calvin Nesbitt. The monitor design continued as the principal coastal and riverine warship in North and South America as well as Europe until the turn of the century. Stunned and temporarily blinded, Worden gave the order to “shear off” temporarily. Later tests conducted after the battle showed that if the Monitor had used 25lb or 30lb gunpowder charges that its 11-inch guns would have punctured the Virginia’s hull with relative ease at close ranges. Franklin Buchananand Lt. Catesby R. Jones [CS] USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina on 31 December 1862. The stately Buchanan House, current residence of Academy superintendents, is named after this famous Confederate admiral. Das Schiff war vor allem für Operationen in flachen Gewässern ausgelegt und sollte ein möglichst kleines Ziel bieten. To prevent any catastrophic gun bursting within the confined turret, each of the 11-inch guns was restricted to using 15-lb gunpowder charges. Virginia. Nach einem mehr als einstündigen Schusswechsel gab die Congress schließlich auf. Until this time, ships were made from wood and powered by sails, but shipbuilders and engineers had been experimenting with iron for shipbuilding and steam engines for power. Unter dem Kommando von Korvettenkapitän John Lorimer Worden war diese in der Nacht zuvor in die Hampton Roads eingelaufen und beschützte nun die USS Minnesota. The delays in obtaining and shaping these iron plates gave the Union more time to construct their counters to the growing menace of the Virginia. Die Konföderierten arbeiteten im Eiltempo an der Virginia, jedoch bereitete vor allem der Antrieb Probleme. At one point in the battle, crew members aboard the Virginia resorted to attempting to fire muskets into the open gun ports of the Monitor. Unfortunately for the Confederates, Union soldiers on shore nearby knew or cared little for naval tradition and fired upon the exposed officers and men. This comparison of the CSS Virginia and USS Monitor (in the foreground) shows the significant size differential between these two famous combatants. Kurze Zeit nach dem Baubeginn der Virginia begannen auch die Nordstaaten, ein gepanzertes Kriegsschiff zu entwerfen. To make up for this painful shortage, the Confederacy was reduced to scavenging old scrap iron, melting down old smoothbore cannon and iron tools, and even ripping up hundreds of miles of railroad track. The Merrimack (Virginia) was destroyed by Confederate soldiers when the Union took over the port at Norfolk, Virginia in 1862. Donate today to preserve Civil War battlefields and the nation’s history for generations to come. März 1862 in der Mündung des James, den Hampton Roads, in Virginia statt. Unlike the Monitor, whose belt of armor descended well below its waterline, the Virginia’s iron plating extended barely to its waterline when fully loaded. The Monitor saved the Minnesota outright (so much so that one Minnesota crew member had his tombstone designed to look like the Monitor—the ship that saved his life), and helped keep the Virginia forever trapped in Hampton Roads until the Confederate vessel was destroyed by her own crew on May 11, 1862, following the fall of Norfolk to Union forces.
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