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John Lorimer Worden
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.
Commanding the Union’s only warship of this class, USS Monitor, Worden challenged the Confederate vessel CSS Virginia, a converted steam-frigate that had sunk a Union blockader and damaged two others. After a four-hour battle, both ships withdrew, unable to pierce the other’s armour.
==Background and early career==
Worden was born in Scarborough, New York. He grew up in (Swartwoutville ), Dutchess County, New York, and was married to Olivia Toffey, the aunt of (Daniel Toffey ), captain's clerk of the USS ''Monitor''. He was appointed midshipman in the Navy on January 10, 1834. He served his first three years in the sloop-of-war ''Erie'' on the Brazil Station. Following that, he was briefly assigned to the sloop before he reported to the Naval School at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for seven months of instruction. He returned to sea in July 1840 for two years with the Pacific Squadron.
Between 1844 and 1846, Worden was stationed at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. During the Mexican-American War, he cruised the west coast, primarily in the store ship ''Southampton'', but in other ships as well. In 1850, he returned to the Naval Observatory for another two-year tour of duty. The ensuing nine years were filled with sea duty which took Worden on several cruises in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas.
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