Part of a Civil War Confederate ironclad ship has been recovered from the bottom of the Savannah River, authorities said. Crews with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Navy divers surfaced the ...

OFF CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. -- Cradled in a hammock 200 feet below the water's surface, Navy diver Rusty Deen has little to do for the next five hours but read and stare into the cobalt-blue hole below ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon ...

The CSS Neuse is a rare piece of Civil War history – a remarkably intact ironclad ship freed 50 years ago from the Neuse River. Now the state’s archaeologists are going back for more. On Monday ...

May 9 (Reuters) - A Confederate ironclad warship, scuttled by its crew to prevent it from falling into Yankee hands, will be salvaged before the long-planned dredging of the mouth of the Savannah ...

"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 ...

HATTERAS, N.C. -- Strong undersea currents and shifting winds delayed an attempt Sunday to raise the 120-ton revolving gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Sixteen officers and crew ...

The USS Cairo, a Civil War-era “ironclad” gunboat, was raised from the Mississippi River in 1964—but if its wood decay problem goes unaddressed, it may sink again. The warship—which has the ...

ARLINGTON One hundred and fifty years after their Civil War ironclad sank, two unknown sailors from the warship Monitor were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. “This may well be ...

"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 ...