Join us at The Mariners' for a newly created series, USS Monitor Legacy Program, that highlights the history and lasting impact of USS Monitor through a variety of public events in partnership with the NOAA Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.

Hear about CSS Manassas and how it led to the establishment of the US Navy’s Ironclad Board.

USRMS Naugatuck, fought with USS Monitor during the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff on May 15, 1862, and then decommissioned.

Join us for a Monitor presentation with historian John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center, as he presents about the US Navy’s attempt to modernize and build new classes of monitors.

John L. Worden transferred from the US Naval Observatory to secure an active role in the Mexican War.