Почему флот построил тонущий железный гроб всего за 100 дней — USS Monitor

On March 8, 1862, the age of wooden navies died in a single afternoon. When the CSS Virginia crushed the Union fleet, the U.S. Navy turned to an eccentric inventor’s desperate, radical experiment. The USS Monitor was a floating iron raft with a revolving turret, built under a 100-day deadline. It was cramped, unseaworthy, and nearly suffocated its own crew—yet it changed naval combat forever. Was this ironclad a genius breakthrough or just a dangerous, sinking death trap?