One of the nation's most revered military shipwrecks was visited in May by a NOAA-backed team and they made a surprising discovery 16 miles off North Carolina. The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON, Va. – More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad's turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried ...

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 ...

2018-03-17T09:07:03-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c93/20180317092309003_hd.jpgAnna Holloway, co-author, Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil ...

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in shallow rivers ...

WASHINGTON -- The Navy announced Feb. 21 that the March 8 graveside interment ceremony of the remains of two unknown Sailors recovered from the USS Monitor shipwreck will be open to the public. The ...

2005-12-03T17:07:37-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/8cd/190107-05-m.jpgPaul Clancy was interviewed about his book Ironclad: The Epic Battle, Calamitous Loss, and ...

One of the nation’s most revered military shipwrecks was visited in May by a NOAA-backed team and they made a surprising discovery 16 miles off North Carolina. The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is ...