World & Nation
Daily Press photos of the USS Monitor gun turret, which is being preserved at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News.
July 24, 2015
For more than 150 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., the engines and pumps that drove history’s first mechanized warship have been silent.
March 6, 2016
The Monitor turret treatment tank on Monday, July 27, 2015 was exposed from beneath an alkaline solution for the first time in three years.
July 27, 2015
More than 150 years after it sank off Cape Hatteras inside the warship Monitor, a woolen coat discarded by a Union sailor trying to escape the doomed Civil War ironclad is approaching another milestone.
Jan. 10, 2015
North Carolina: Mel Covey has spent more than half his life seeking to prove a local legend that pinpoints the burial site of seamen who died on the USS Monitor.
Aug. 23, 1998
Business
American Home Products Corp. faces trial in a bid by symptom-free users of the fen-phen diet drug combination to force the U.S.’
Aug. 2, 1999
China is accusing the U.S. of staging a provocative show of force by sailing two Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait.
Dec. 31, 2020
Travel & Experiences
As navies go, the Navy of Confederate States of America was short-lived.
Dec. 18, 1988
There’s no doubt the presence of civilians aboard the submarine USS Greeneville contributed indirectly to the sinking of a Japanese trawler, killing nine.
March 8, 2001
California
The California Coastal Commission unanimously approved a controversial plan to dock a massive Navy aircraft carrier in San Diego Bay after the proponents guaranteed compensation for environmental harm.
March 15, 2001