The USS Gerald R. Ford -- the world's largest aircraft carrier -- is playing a key role in the US-Israeli war against Iran, but has suffered problems during its extended deployment. The carrier has ...

The eight-foot-long underwater robot called Remus 300 dropped into the Atlantic Ocean 16 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and descended toward the bottom, where it began to examine the wreck ...

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The vessel is submerged 240 feet deep off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Northrop Grumman On December 31, 1862, the USS Monitor—the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad warship—sailed into a storm ...

The Union’s USS Monitor is considered by many to be the most famous ironclad ship of the American Civil War, if not the most famous ship of any kind. It shares the honor with its archnemesis, the ...

One of the nation’s most famous wartime shipwrecks is apparently still defending itself on the seafloor off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, researchers say. New high-solution sonar images captured by ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — In April 1861, as Confederate forces moved in on Gosport Navy Shipyard, the Union burned it down, sinking its ships. The Confederacy salvaged what they could of the USS ...

More than 160 years after the USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina, new 3D images are offering a detailed look at an iconic Civil War ship that helped shape naval technology and marine ...

More than 160 years after the historic clash that changed naval warfare, the USS Monitor is still revealing new details about its story. On Saturday, experts gathered at The Mariners’ Museum and Park ...

During the Civil War’s Battle of Hampton Roads, the warship USS Monitor, known as “the little ship that saved the nation,” fought to preserve the Union blockade. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...