John L. Worden transferred from the US Naval Observatory to secure an active role in the Mexican War.

On Saturday, March 11, we hosted our annual Battle of Hampton Roads Commemoration and our community showed up!! Our galleries were buzzing with excitement and curiosity, and we couldn't be more grateful for this time spent with YOU - our Mariners' family.

Join us for a Monitor presentation with historian John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center, as he talks about the “father of American naval ordnance.”

Join us for a lecture with author and historian John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center. Quarstein will give a presentation on the day’s event as the Union Wooden Fleet prepared to face off against the Confederate ironclad Merrimack on March 7, 1862.

Watch our team remove USS Monitor's condenser tank to make more room in our Batten Conservation Complex!