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John Lorimer Worden (March 12, 1818 – October 19, 1897) was a U.S. Navy officer in the American Civil War, who took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first-ever engagement between ironclad steamships at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 9 March 1862.
John L. Worden was the first commanding officer of the USS Monitor, the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad, and Lieutenant Commander Samuel Dana Greene (seated, far right) served as his second in command. After worden was nearly blinded during the Monitor’s battle with the Confederate Navy’s Virginia, Greene took command of the ship.
John L. Worden was a U.S. naval officer who commanded the Union warship Monitor against the Confederate Virginia (formerly Merrimack) in the first battle between ironclads (March 9, 1862) in the American Civil War (1861–65). Appointed a midshipman in 1834, Worden received his early naval training.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
John Lorimer Worden began his career in the United States Navy on January 10, 1834, after he was appointed a midshipman. He served with the Pacific Squadron from 1840 to 1842, was stationed at the Naval Observatory in Washington DC, and served on numerous ships on the west coast during the Mexican-American War.
Such was the case in early 2004, when a presentation sword given to John Lorimer Worden, captain of the Monitor in her famous duel with the Virginia, was returned to the U.S. Naval Academy Museum more than 70 years after it was stolen.
Captain Worden spent the remainder of the Civil War on the important duty of supervising the construction of new ironclads. Following the end of the great conflict, Worden commanded USS...
Lieutenant John Lorimer Worden, a career naval scientific officer, achieved great fame when he commanded the USS Monitor during her famous fight with the CSS Virginia on 9 March 1862—history’s first clash of ironclads. Worden had been blinded near the battle’s conclusion and faced a long recovery.
