
Civil War ironclad USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm on December 31, 1862. Discovered in 1973, the wreck site became out nation’s first national marine sanctuary on January 30, 1975.
Civil War ironclad USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm on December 31, 1862. Discovered in 1973, the wreck site became out nation’s first national marine sanctuary on January 30, 1975.