[jrushing]

detonating the 16,000 pounds of black powder in the ship's magazine.

Just imagine that explosion.. & they had enough left to put in a museum.

That Yankee Monitor just sank by itself.

[Non-Sequitur]

That Yankee Monitor just sank by itself.

Yeah we didn't need to blow it up to keep it from being captured after running it aground on a marked shoal. Actually the Monitor went down with help from a rather severe storm off of Hatteras, which is not called the graveyard of the Atlantic without reason.

[Travis McGee]

That Yankee Monitor changed the course of Naval history and construction more than any other warship I can even think of.