page_title: Sewell's Point
section_title: Battle of Hampton Roads
hierarchical_section_title: Sewell's Point / A strategic Civil War location / Battle of Hampton Roads
caption_attribution_description: "Map of Hampton Roads and Vicinity." The First Fight of Iron-clads.
context_page_description: Sewells Point is a peninsula of land in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia, in the United States, located at the mouth of the salt-water port of Hampton Roads. Sewells Point is bordered by water on three sides, with Willoughby Bay to the north, Hampton Roads to the west, and the Lafayette River to the south. It is the site of Naval Station Norfolk.
context_section_description: The famous Battle of Hampton Roads took place off Sewells Point in Hampton Roads on March 8–9, 1862.
  USS Monitor of the Union Navy faced CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy.
  The battle, which was inconclusive, is chiefly significant in naval history as the first battle between two powered, ironclad warships.
caption: Battle of Hampton Roads, Virginia
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