For almost all of human history, boats were made of wood. Sure, today we've got amazing ships built from steel and composites, but people have been sailing for thousands of years, so almost every ship ...

The CSS Neuse is a rare piece of Civil War history – a remarkably intact ironclad ship freed 50 years ago from the Neuse River. Now the state’s archaeologists are going back for more. On Monday ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia! Republican, ...

Part of a Civil War Confederate ironclad ship has been recovered from the bottom of the Savannah River, authorities said. Crews with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Navy divers surfaced the ...

When Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond got the contract for the first Confederate ironclad ship, making the iron wasn’t the only challenge. Getting it to Norfolk, where the USS Merrimack was being ...