The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank was ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Hampton Roads has a rich history, and there’s no more memorable battle than the one between the Monitor and the Merrimac. The turret of the USS Monitor is in the middle of ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The tank housing the historic USS Monitor's gun turret was drained for the first time in years while undergoing conservation efforts at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport ...
HATTERAS, N.C. -- The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised Monday from the floor of the Atlantic, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a storm ...
RICHMOND, Va. — When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the hulk of the Union Civil War ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time in six years, the USS Monitor's turret tank is being drained, and that will allow people to see the usually ...