NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — For the first time since it sank more than 160 years ago, the public is getting a high-definition look at the Civil War’s most famous ironclad.
New 3D sonar images of the USS Monitor were unveiled at the Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, providing a groundbreaking baseline for historians and archaeologists studying the wreck.
The ship currently sits about 240 feet below the surface of the Atlantic, off the coast of Cape Hatteras…