NEWPORT NEWS (AP) -- When Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists recovered the USS Monitor steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded in a thick layer ...

For more than 150 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., the landmark engines and pumps that drove history’s first mechanized warship have been silent.

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia -- When the turret of the USS Monitor was hoisted from the ocean floor in 2002, the real heavy lifting was just beginning: conserving and restoring more than 200 tons of Civil ...

The order to abandon ship came just after midnight. The USS Monitor, a Union ironclad, was taking on too much water, caught in a violent storm. At approximately 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, 1862, the Monitor ...

The ruddied brown of centuries-old iron serves as a constant source of excitement at the Mariners’ Museum: a peek into history for casual visitors, an endless resource for Civil War buffs and a ...

Wet lab conservator, Will Hoffman, replaces artifacts from the USS Monitor into containers at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The ruddied brown of centuries-old iron serves as a constant source of excitement at the Mariners' Museum: a peek into history for casual visitors, an endless resource for ...

“With all the archival data and that real archaeological data coming together, we’ve built the most accurate virtual model ever of Monitor, and I'm not just talking just the shell of it. Every single ...

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