The Monitor : the iron warship that changed the world /

Thompson, Gare.

The Monitor : the iron warship that changed the world / by Gare Thompson ; illustrated by Larry Day. - New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 2003. - 47 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. - All aboard reading. Station stop 3 .

Discusses the Monitor and the Virginia, ironclad warships that confronted each other at the Civil War battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, detailing what became of the ships after the battle and how the sunken Monitor was later investigated by scientists.

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Monitor (Ironclad)--Juvenile literature.
Virginia (Ironclad)--Juvenile literature.
Monitor (Ironclad)
Virginia (Ironclad)


Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862--Juvenile literature.
Shipwrecks--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape--Juvenile literature.
Underwater archaeology--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape--Juvenile literature.
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
Underwater archaeology.


United States--History--Naval operations--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865

E595.M7 / T48 2003

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