Monitor v.s. Virginia

The C.S.S Virginia, also called the Merrimack. Its called the Merrimack by the North, because the North had a shipyard in Virginia. But when Virginia left the North and became a South state the shipyard was overtaken by Confederates. When the Union evacuated the shipyard they destroyed the U.S.S Merrimack, but in a hurry they failed to completely destroy her. The Confederates saved what they could of the Merrimack wooden ship, from the remains they made the C.S.S Virgina. On board the Virginia were ten cannons, at the front of the ship was a sold ed iron claw like thing. That they used to ram other ships, which is how the Virginia took out the Cumberland, a Union ship. At the battle of Hampton Roads, the Virgina destroyed, and sank the Cumberland. Then moved on to destroy the other Union wooden ship Congress. The caption of the Virgina had a brother on the Congress but he still proceed to destroy it. Later they burned it after letting the ship men evacuate. The Monitor arrived the next day, to stop the Virgina in her next attack.

Megan Beal,

Frank's Design Team

C.S.S. Virginia

C.S.S. stands for Confederates State Ship.

The Virginia was in the Hampton Roads battle against the U.S.S. (Union State Ship) Monitor. It hit the Monitor 25 times and got hit 20 times. The Monitor tried to ram the Virginia but it didn't do much damage. Eventually won the battle and the Monitor sunk.

Eva Daliana, Frank's Project Team

USS Monitor v.s CSS Virginia

John Ericsson, disliked the US Navy and did want anything to do with it, but finally was convinced to build the Ironclad by Cornelius Scranton Bushnell. USS, means Union States Ship. So the USS Monitor was a Union ship. USS Monitor would inflict lots of damage on any wooden boat. But in the battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The USS Monitor went up agents the CSS Virginia. (CSS, means Confederate States Ship.) The CSS Virginia also had armor protecting it, unlike John Ericsson, the Confederates covered a wooden boat with iron creating the CSS Virginia. The captain of the USS Monitor decide after the battle had lasted many hours to ram into the CSS Virginia. More damage happened to the USS Monitor, when the CSS Virginia dodged them. The USS Monitor was moved into shallow waters to wait out the rest of the battle.

Megan Beal,

Frank's Design Team

Invention of the USS Monitor

The USS Monitor was made in amazing 100 days. At first John Ericsson inventor of the USS Monitor, did not want to build a ship for the USA. But was later forced by officials to create a ship. When John Ericsson presented his planes for armored ship people were ecstatic, nobody ever before had thought of it. The finished date of the USS Monitor was March 6th 1862. The picture is of a monument of John Ericsson in Battery park, NYC. (John Ericsson July 31st 1803, March 8th 1889.)


Megan Beal,
Frank's Design Team

USS Monitor

USS Monitor did not sink beacuse of a torpedo. She sank while heading south, a large storm left her lost at sea on December 31 1862. She was found in 1974, and now is in a marine santuary. She was a 987-ton ship, designed by John Ericsson, a Swedish engineer.

Megan Beal,

Frank's Design Team

John Ericsson

John Ericsson invented the first Ironclad for the Union. Her name was "Monitor". In February 25th 1862 she was shot down with a torpedo and was not recovered until December 31 1862.

Megan Beal, Frank's Design Team