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. The tank was recently ...

Conservators drained the historic USS Monitor gun turret for the first time in more than a year this week as they prepared the giant Civil War artifact for its first major conservation and ...

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 Civil War buffs and a ...

After 140 years resting on the ocean’s bottom off the North Carolina coast, the massive gun turret of the USS Monitor was brought to the surface Monday evening along with its two large Dahlgren ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Conservators of the historic USS Monitor’s gun turret are using technology to look at the artifact in a new way - as a digital 3-D model. Automated Precision’s Newport ...

The silt-packed turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised Monday from the Atlantic floor, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a New Year's storm.

The ironclad USS Monitor fought to a draw with the CSS Virginia in 1862 in the waters of Hampton Roads only to sink to a watery grave ... NOAA and the Navy recovered the Monitor's gun turret in 2002.

The 90,000-gallon treatment tank that houses the USS Monitor’s iconic revolving gun turret will be drained this summer by conservators at the USS Monitor Center’s Batten Conservation ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The ...