At flood-tide on the morning of Aug. 5, 1864, more than 150 years ago, one of the most famous battles in U.S. Navy history began. Union commander Adm. David Farragut took 18 ships in a dash through a ...

HATTERAS, N.C. - The steam engine from the USS Monitor was brought to the surface Monday, 138 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad went down in a storm. A crane aboard a 300-foot oceangoing ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On August 6, 1862, as part of the Battle of Baton Rouge, the Confederate ironclad named “Arkansas” was sent to fight the Union ironclad “USS Essex.” For the second day in a row, ...