The battle lasted four hours as the ships shot at each other but were unable to do serious damage. The final outcome of the battle was cannonballs bouncing off each other. Both eventually retired from battle unable to beat the other.
As fate would have it, the Confederates scuttled and destroyed their ironclad, while the USS Monitor eventually foundered while under tow in a storm. Neither ship survived 1862.
DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY OF USS MONITOR
The USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862. She remained underwater for over a hundred years until she was discovered in 1973 (the year I started teaching). Since then, she has been partially salvaged and her relics are on display at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
REDISCOVERED: 1973
SALVAGE: It has been partially salvaged. (The turret was salvaged completely.)
Today people can visit the relics and view a full-scale replica of the ship. They can also see her two cannons, engine and other recovered objects.
--Old B-Runner
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