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The CSS Virginia was converted into the ironclad ship from the hull of the U.S.S. Merrimack. The Virginia eventually fought the USS Monitor during the civil war.
The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The CSS Virginia was originally the USS Merrimac.
They weren't. They were the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The CSS Virginia was built from the hull of the USS Merrimac, which was sunk and burned by the Union when they left the shipyard.
They weren't. They were the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The CSS Virginia was built from the hull of the USS Merrimac, which was sunk and burned by the Union when they left the shipyard.
The inventor of the USS Monitor was John Ericsson. The CSS Virginia was not "invented". It was first a Union warship called the USS Merrimack. It had been burned by retreating Union forces at the naval base of Norfolk. The ship was resurrected into an ironclad and named the CSS Virginia. There is no credit given as to the "inventor" in as much as it was not "invented".