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The Monitor comes home
Daily PressThe Civil War gun turret that turned naval history upside down completed its momentous journey back from the depths Saturday, coming to rest in a mammoth steel conservation tank at The Mariners' Museum. Recovered by Navy divers Monday from the seas off...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), CSS Virginia, History, Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions
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Navy divers finally descend on Monitor
Daily PressNavy divers wasted little time descending on the Cape Hatteras, N.C., wreck of the USS Monitor last week, after a 10-day delay in their effort to save the ship's historic revolving gun turret. With its huge 500-ton crane repaired by a Norfolk shipyard,...Tags: CSS Virginia, USS Monitor, Diving, Wars and Interventions, Sports
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Turret ends historic voyage
Daily PressStraight-backed Navy divers looked on with pride and amazement Friday morning as a 21-gun salute greeted them and their historic prize -- the gun turret from the wreck of the USS Monitor -- at the entrance to Hampton Roads. The thunderous sound of cannon...Tags: CSS Virginia, Fort Monroe, USS Monitor, Death, Petroleum Industry
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Museum gets ironclad drawings
Daily PressTwo original drawings from one of the most important naval building projects of the Civil War have been acquired by The Mariners' Museum. Created by Confederate naval constructor John L. Porter in June 1861, the fragile pair of images show both Porter'...Tags: CSS Virginia, History, USS Monitor, Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions
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Turret's return big event for many
Daily PressFloating gracefully past Fort Monroe early Friday, the gun turret of the USS Monitor was welcomed back to familiar waters by history buffs, service members and a 21-gun salute. The turret is considered the most significant feature of the famous Civil War...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), CSS Virginia, Science, History, Arts and Culture
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Lifting frame scrapes side of Monitor's turret
Daily PressCalm seas and a cooperative current favored Monitor Expedition 2002 last week, enabling Navy divers to lower a 29-ton, eight-legged lifting frame through the depths and place it over the historic gun turret of the USS Monitor. But a hidden fragment of...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), CSS Virginia, Science and Technology, USS Monitor, Wars and Interventions
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Museum's collections crucial to ID
Daily PressTwo mysterious bone fragments remained partially buried inside the sunken gun turret of the USS Monitor Monday, waiting as Navy divers labored to secure the ship's two 15,750-pound guns and resume their excavation. Yet even as archaeologists prepared for...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), CSS Virginia, Arts and Culture, Armed Forces, Hampton Roads
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Trying to lift the gun turret
Daily PressThe $7.1 million effort to raise the USS Monitor's gun turret reached an important milestone this weekend. Late Friday afternoon, Navy divers and their colleagues on the surface were preparing to remove a 40-ton piece of the vessel's massive armor belt....Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), CSS Virginia, USS Monitor, Hatteras, Armed Forces
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Turret to the top: 5-year mission culminates with historic icon's raising
Daily PressOne of history's greatest naval artifacts rose from the Graveyard of the Atlantic Monday, pulled up from the deep by a determined band of nautical archaeologists and Navy divers. Ensnared by a giant steel claw, the 120-ton gun turret of the USS Monitor...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), CSS Virginia, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces
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REVISITING THE MONITOR
Daily PressNavy divers will join a team of Newport News-based archaeologists in the Graveyard of the Atlantic this week for a daring attempt to save the defining feature of one of history's most famous warships. Operating from a giant barge moored 16 miles off Cape...Tags: Weaponry, CSS Virginia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, New Year's Day, Archaeology
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USS Monitor series: A call to arms
Daily PressNo one asked which was the stronger naval power when the United States broke into Civil War. The North boasted a fleet of 42 warships. The South had virtually none. Yet, with the fall of Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth in April 1861, the Confederacy...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Weaponry, Tredegar Corporation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, CSS Virginia
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USS Monitor series: Designer, Navy forge unlikely alliance
Daily PressSwedish-American engineer John Ericsson was born with a rare mechanical skill and even rarer ambition. At 16, he drew the plans for a 30-mile-long canal - as well as all the machinery and tools used in its construction. At 26, he designed the Novelty, an...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), CSS Virginia, Invention and Innovation, Armed Forces, Hampton Roads
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