Did you know you can see artifacts from the USS Monitor from the comfort of your own home?
3D model of a wrought iron anchor from the USS Monitor. It was designed by John Ericsson and is the only known surviving example of its type. (Image credit: NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, The Mariners' Museum and Park, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, and the University of West Florida's Sea 3D Additive Manufacturing Laboratory)
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Although the shipwreck of the 1862 Civil War ironclad, the USS Monitor, resides in NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, many of the artifacts from the wreck are on display at The Mariners’ Museum and Park offsite link’s USS Monitor Center offsite link in Newport News, VA.
For those who can’t make it to the museum, the USS Monitor Virtual Artifact Collection shares 3D models of some of the artifacts online.
The USS Monitor was the Union's first ironclad warship. It launched on January 30, 1862 and fought in the Battle of Hampton Roads that March. On New Year's Eve in 1862, the ship sank in a storm off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
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