USS Monitor

The USS Arizona Memorial was formally dedicated on May 30, 1962 (Memorial Day) by Texas Congressman and Chairman of Veteran Affairs Olin E. Teague and Governor John A. Burns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. While the wreck of USS Arizona was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989, the memorial does not share this status. Rather, it is…

Have you ever experienced an event that seemed to define everything else that followed it? In the Civil War, something very similar to this happend with the Union's implementation of the Anaconda Plan. The plan itself was simple, strangle the Confederacy economically by not allowing trade in or out, and exacerbating the damage caused by a lack of industry. The fallout from this plan was immense, since many of the naval developments that occurred were directly related to the blockade. For…

attacked the Union fleet at Hampton Roads sinking the USS Cumberland and running the USS Congress aground. The following day, the USS Monitor, the first ironclad warship of the United States Navy, arrived at the natural harbor and the two state of the art vessels engaged each other in the first battle between ironclad warships in world history. The battle ended indecisively, with the Merrimac retiring back down the James River and the Monitor deciding not to pursue it.…

Battleships of WWI Battleships were a major part of battle in WWI. There were many types of warships that played different roles in combat over water. There were dreadnought battleships, pre-dreadnought battleships, torpedo boats, destroyers, monitors, submarines, and cruisers. The types of primary ships evolved throughout the war. Dreadnought Battleships These types of battleships were named after the warship that the British introduced in WWI. They differed from previous…

classified, have been released recently. These materials have paved the way to the possibility that distorted facts led to the United States engagement in the Vietnam War. There is no arguing the fact that a North Vietnamese patrol boat attacked the USS Maddox while the ship was patrolling in the Gulf on August 2nd, 1964. What is in contention are the subsequent actions of the United States officials in the coming days. The actions taken by the U.S. officials has been shrouded in mystery since…

Nuclear energy has impacted many aspects of current technology. Nuclear energy is commonly associated with nuclear missiles and bombs, however, another common use of nuclear energy is in submarines. Submarines are key features in any navy force. There are currently two hundred nuclear reactors at sea, while over seven hundred have been used since the 1950s ("Nuclear-Powered Ships." World Nuclear Association). The design of nuclear reactors in submarines is extremely complex, but decades of…

as a teacher, later immigrating to the United States in 1873. He found employment at an engineering firm and again as a teacher at St. John’s Catholic School. His inspiration for the submarine was in his reading of the battle between the ironclads Monitor and Merrimack in the Civil War. From his readings he reasoned that the ideal way to defeat such a ship was to attack it from below the waterline. This base idea lead to the creation of the modern submarine and more technological advances in…

United States government has been on its toes speculating that North Korea will begin launching its sixth nuclear-weapons test soon. The United States have tested their own intercontinental ballistic missiles, and also currently sending aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to the Korean Peninsula. With all of this in mind, it raises a very important question to explore, what is North Korea’s and…

The company resembles the system concept to the human body’s autonomic nervous system that monitors, controls and adjusts your autonomic response to external stimuli. Similarly ALIS will be doing the same for the F-35 jet, seamlessly integrating current performance, operational parameters, current configuration, scheduled upgrades and maintenance…

CSCSU has a strict no cell phone policy while in the schoolhouse. Any student that enters the classroom with his or her cell phone simply shows lack of interest in learning, lack of self restraint and the inability to follow simple orders. When I was in high school, I often noticed students texting or playing games with their phones whenever our teacher was turned around writing on the board or absent from the room. By the end of the semester, most of those students wouldn 't be…