Item  #  B1904

Monitor Limited Edition 21"

• Fully assembled, this is not a kit.
• 21" long x 5" Wide x 7" High (1:98 scale). 15 Lbs.
• Museum quality handcrafted model ship with no plastic parts.
• Meticulously painted to the actual Monitor.
• Amazing details:  Cannons, cloth flags, metal railings, lifeboats and davits.
• Includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity as only 200 will ever be made.
• The model rests perfectly on a large, wood base.
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.

USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy. She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which Monitor fought the ironclad CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy. The Monitor was the first in a long line of Monitor-class U.S. warships and the term "monitor" describes a broad class of European harbor defense craft.

Ironclads were only a recent innovation, started with the 1859 French battleship La Gloire. Afterwards, the design of ships and the nature of naval warfare changed dramatically.