This ship was the USS Monitor. She became famous after duelling inconclusively with the Merrimack, or CSS Virginia, on March 9th 1863 off Hampton Roads, Virginia.
The Confederate ship was called the Merrimack and the Union ship was called the Monitor.
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Ironclad
The Merrimac
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The Confederate ship was called the Merrimack and the Union ship was called the Monitor.
The SOUTHERN ironclad ship was the Merrimac, which was also called the Virginia.
Monitor
The first Ironclad ship ever made was by the northern states during the civil war was named the Monitor.
A ship is by itself never a weapon, and that also goes for an ironclad ship. The ironclad could only be called a weapon carrier.
The Merrimack
The Union Ironclad Ship that was built to compete with the Confederate Ironclad was called the U.S.S. Monitor and the Confederate Ironclad was called the Merrimack (more accurately, the CSS Virginia).
Ironclad
The Confederates had a ship called an Ironclad (one of the inventions of the Civil War) and this Ironclad ship was called the Merrimac. If you don't trust this answer then don't blame me, because that's what we learned in school.
The Union Ironclad ship was the Monitor. The Confederate ship was the Virginia.
YES. IT FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF HAMPTON RHODES AGAINST THE IRONCLAD MERRIMAC IN THE WORLDS FIRST BATTLE OF IRONCLAD SHIPS
The Monitor was an ironclad ship created by the Union to battle against the Confederate ironclad called the Virginia (Merrimack).