Hampton Roads battle part 2 - CSS Virginia vs USS Monitor

First ironclads fight.. Uss Monitor engages the wreck of the Merrimack.

[@PiotrBarcz]

Half that thing's underwater THERE'S NOTHING TO SHOOT AT 🤣That made me laugh so hard when I heard it the first time

[@StevenSmith-dc1fq]

Remarkable. Where have they been hiding this? The best, most astute, edge-of-the-seat version of the battle I've seen.

[@natus1]

Captain that tin is at an angle we can’t bring a single gun to bear

[@MarshallRedmon01]

The USS. Monitor and the CSS. Virginia where such engineering marvels

[@eileenkean9787]

USS Monitor with the rotating turret is a technological achievement.

[@Andrew-mo9gp]

@@eileenkean9787 A bit behind HMS Trusty of 1859.

[@benjermanvanderburg5864]

Id like too see the Css Neuse boiler operational and let her make a historical rum and shoe of powder smoke. At least once a year.. Knowing shes the only full size replica that could acually travel with safteyp

[@springtrap1796]

Mr Ramsey you have got to get us off this mudbank We are shoveling all the coal the furnaces will take! 💢Well then throw in whatever burns faster and hotter than coal Mr. Ramsey! We have got to risk it!💢 XD funny 😆

[@professionaltaxevader4638]

Is this a draw?

[@EctoSupreme]

Tactically Virgina won by the sakes of sinking multiple ships previously. Strategically Monitor won as it didn't help the Confederates get closer to winning the war itself.

[@eileenkean9787]

yes

[@WatcherMovie008]

Technicality, it was a Confederate win as the CSS Virginia sunk both the Cumberland and Congress, however strategically it was an Union victory as the USS Monitor prevented the Virginia from achieving her goal which was to free up the Mississippi River from Union warships to allow Confederate ships to trade and send supplies up and down the river unmolested. Both the Union and Confederacy would publish newspaper stating how the other retreated when in reality both ships were unable to continue fighting as the Virginia suffered heavy engine failure and Monitor's turret malfunctioned.