For almost all of human history, boats were made of wood. Sure, today we've got amazing ships built from steel and composites, but people have been sailing for thousands of years, so almost every ship ...
"Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history of the amazing ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War. From the ship's inventor, who had a history of blowing things up and only 100 days to complete his ...
A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia! Crowd roars as ...
Divers were heading out to sea yesterday to begin a survey of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor wreckage 16 miles off the North Carolina coast. Expedition director Jeff Johnston of the Monitor ...
"I continued doing it until I was married and then thought maybe it was childish, so I quit doing it," he acknowledged. But one day Bowers, vice president of information systems for Northwest Iowa ...