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Was the USS Monitor the most revolutionary technological development of the American Civil War?

USS Monitor: A Cheesebox on a Raft

The U.S. Navy bureaucracy wanted an ironclad "rigged with two masts" for sails. John Ericsson bucked orthodoxy to create a ship that changed the world.

USS Laffey: Attacked Off Okinawa in World War II

WORLD WAR II SHIPS

Juno Mayru: Torpedoed By British Submarine HMS Tradewind
A callous disregard for the rules of war doomed the Allied prisoners on a Japanese merchantman to death at the hands of their own countrymen.

	Air Group 87 Strike Japanese Battleship-Carrier Hyuga During World War II
	USS Franklin: Struck by a Japanese Dive Bomber During World War II
	USS Liscome Bay: Hit By a Torpedo Near Makin Atoll During World War II
	USS William D. Porter: The U.S. Navy Destroyer's Service in World War II

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SHIPS

USS Monitor: The Crew Took Great Pride in Serving on the Famous Ship
The crew of Swedish Inventor John Ericsson's USS Monitor took great pride in serving on the renowned 'cheese box on a raft.'

	CSS Albemarle: Confederate Ironclad in the American Civil War
	USS Indianola: Union Ironclad in the American Civil War
	USS Constellation: Union Man-of-War in the American Civil War
	USS Constitution: The Legendary Survivor

VIETNAM WAR SHIPS

USS Westchester County: Attacked During the Vietnam War
When VC frogmen struck USS Westchester County, they inflicted the Navy's greatest single-incident combat loss of the war.

USS Frank E. Evans: Disaster in the South China Sea

OTHER BOATS & SHIPS USED MILITARY BATTLE

Naval Weaponry: Italy's MAS Torpedo Boats
Mosquitoes with a deadly sting, Italy's tiny MAS torpedo boats cut enemy battleships down to size.

USS Missouri: Served in World War II and Korean War

PADDLE-WHEELRS

Paddle-wheelers Appeared on the Colorado River in 1852
When a steamboat first appeared on the Colorado River in 1852, some Indians were afraid, but they would get plenty of chances to become used to the belching boats during the next 25 years.

SULTANA TRAGEDY

Sultana: A Tragic Postscript to the Civil War
In a tragic postscript to the Civil War, as many as 1,700 Union soldiers, recently released from Confederate prisons, may have died while en route home aboard the steamer Sultana.

STEAM BOAT YELLOW STONE

Steam Boat Yellow Stone Aided General Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution
The first steamboat in the fur trade spent five years maneuvering on the Upper Missouri, but then Yellow Stone took to foreign waters in time to aid General Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution.

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