Wage War: The USS North Carolina was America’s first “fast battleship,” designed for ... armor measuring 16 inches thick ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon ... Outer Banks near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, where the ship sank in ...

And she lived up to her classification as a “fast battleship.” Being able to reach up to 28 knots, the USS North Carolina was among the fastest battleships in the world at the time of her ...

The tank housing the historic USS ... gun turret spent nearly 140 years on the ocean floor after the Civil War ironclad warship sank during a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862.

“I will always remember my pets,” crew member Edward F. Cope said, according to a past post from the USS North Carolina Battleship Facebook page. “‘George,’ my cat, whom I pulled out of ...