Prepared Remarks of SECNAV Mabus; Video Links Posted

USS Monitor Interment Ceremony Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus Remarks as Prepared I’d like to begin by acknowledging the family membe...

USS Monitor Sailors Laid to Rest at Arlington National Cemetery

30308-N-AC887-002 ARLINGTON (March 8, 2013) One of two Sailors recovered from the ironclad USS Monitor is escorted by Gunner's Mate 3rd...

Brick by Brick: LEGO Shipbuilding at HRNM

Participants from last year's LEGO Event building the USS Monitor .  Calling all ship builders!  Bring your LEGO ships to the Hampton Ro...

CSS Virginia LEGO Ship Instructions Available for Download

Click on the above image to download the instructions (.pdf) The wait is finally over!  As part of the new "Brick by Brick: LEGO Shipbu...

Setting Up a Navy Yard in Charlotte, 1862

 1877 map of Charlotte, "Carolina Central R.R.," "R.M. Oates," and Hutchison were the location  of the Charlotte Navy...

CSS Virginia's Firestorm

After many unsuccessful attempts to bring Monitor to battle in April 1862, Commodore Josiah Tattnall and CSS Virginia faced a major crisis...

Let me count the ways (of sinking CSS Virginia)

CSS Virginia in its attack on USS Cumberland. (United States Navy image) This past weekend's observance of the 150th anniversary of the ...

Battle of Hampton Roads Day 2 - Seaman Rob's Report

The second day of the BOHR event dawned with some frost on the ground, which is totally unheard of in March for a Floridian!! I attended th...

More News for the Monitor Faces (and one for Virginia)

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!  We are endeavoring to bring to you the latest and greatest news about the recent release of the two uniden...

USS Minnesota and the Fate of Andromeda

When Virginia made her ascent of the Elizabeth River and appeared in Hampton Roads on March 8, 1862, the New York Times and many others de...

Monitor Mania!

LSU Faces Laboratory/AP This upcoming week will mark one of the most excited periods of events for the Sesquicentennial of the American Civi...

Protecting CSS Virginia -- At All Costs

Harper's Weekly sketch of submarine attack on USS Minnesota in Hampton Roads in fall of 1861. (Library of Congress) Acting Master Willia...

Welles considers torpedo attack on CSS Virginia

As the Union Army commanders dithered over attacking Confederate-held Norfolk and Portsmouth, the Union Navy reeled under the attack of CS...

CSS Virginia LEGO Model Finished

If you saw last week's post on an amazing LEGO Monitor ship built by some HRNM Summer Intern Samuel Nelson, we are happy to inform yo...

"The First of Iron-Clads," John Taylor Wood

 Currier & Ives Illustration Today marks the 149th anniversary of the storied engagement between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia .  Th...