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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 ...

After nearly 140 years of resting on the ocean bottom off North Carolina, the massive gun turret of the Monitor--the first modern warship--was brought to the surface Monday evening along with its ...

NOAA and the Navy recovered the Monitor's gun turret in 2002. Now, 17 years later, a significant milestone in the conservation of the turret is at hand.

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 ...

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 ...

NEWPORT NEWS — Conservators drained the 90,000-gallon treatment tank holding the USS Monitor gun turret Monday, enabling them to, for the first time since 2012, visually inspect the progress … ...

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 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 ...