NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Exactly 145 years after the USS Monitor faced the Confederate ship CSS Virginia in the first clash of ironclads, a $30 million center dedicated to the Union vessel opened Friday.

ABOVE: A multibeam sonar image shows the shipwreck in 2016. It lies 16 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. LEFT: A diver is shown near the Monitor.

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