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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: Hampton Roads, Armed Forces, USS Monitor, Hatteras, Defense
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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: CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Hatteras, USS Monitor, 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: Hampton Roads, Jim Kelly, Science and Technology, Armed Forces, USS Monitor
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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, Hampton Roads, Jim Kelly, Science and Technology, 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: Weaponry, Navy Yard, History, Armed Forces, USS Monitor
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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: Invention and Innovation, Hampton Roads, Science and Technology, Armed Forces, USS Monitor
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Iron fist
Daily Press"I wish you would take a glass and have a look over there, sir. I believe that thing is a-coming at last." - Edward Shippen, quartermaster of the USS Congress, just hours before the rebel ironclad Virginia destroyed his ship Few people imagined the...Tags: Weaponry, Judges, History, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), USS Monitor
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USS Monitor series: Heavy metal
Daily Press"The Merrimac [sic] has caused sad work amongst our vessels. [But] she can't hurt us. God bless you and our little ones." - USS Monitor commander John L. Worden, writing to his wife on the eve of his battle with the Merrimack, also known as the CSS...Tags: Weaponry, Firearms, Navy Yard, History, Gun Control
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Buchanan barrels full speed ahead
Daily PressFranklin Buchanan brought an imposing record to the CSS Virginia when he assumed command of the new ironclad vessel. As a founder and first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, the old Navy tar had trained many of the officers who led the Union...Tags: Hampton Roads, Navy Yard, Armed Forces, USS Monitor, Defense
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Monitor gives rise to one hero, sinks other's career
Daily PressMore than 135 years after the first clash of ironclads, Lt. John L. Worden - the captain of the USS Monitor - looks like an unlikely hero. Though he'd logged 27 years in the Navy when he took command of the ship, the 44-year-old New Yorker was a loyal...Tags: Hampton Roads, Navy Yard, History, Shipbuilding, Science and Technology
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USS Monitor series: Sunken ambition
Daily Press"Well, gentlemen, you don't look like you were just through one of the greatest naval conflicts on record." - Asst. Navy Secretary Gustavus Fox, greeting the Monitor's powder- blackened crew just after its historic battle When the smoke finally...Tags: Hampton Roads, Navy Yard, Sewell's Point, Hatteras, Armed Forces
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Crewmen knew impact of brave effort
Daily PressWhen the sailors of the Monitor steamed into battle against the Virginia, they set out as an inexperienced crew in an untested vessel. Four hours later, after forcing their mighty Confederate opponent into a historic draw, they had transformed their...Tags: Hampton Roads, History, Hatteras, Arts and Culture, CSS Virginia
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