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 ...

What excited me the most was seeing in what good condition the shipwreck was in after so many years,” Monitor Marine Sanctuary Resource Protection Coordinator Tane Renata Casserley told the Charlotte ...