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The USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret is seen in the drained tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News on Monday, March 3, 2025. The turret is typically submerged in a caustic ...

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 ...

The turret of the USS Monitor is in the middle of preservation, and has been in a tank for several years.

The turret spent nearly 140 years on the ocean floor after the ironclad warship sank during a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862.

For the first time in six years, the USS Monitor’s turret tank is being drained, allowing visitors the opportunity to view the usually hidden turret.

The famous battle between the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia did not decide the war, but it did help introduce a whole new type of warship.

The USS Monitor was the oldest and most important of them, as the first U.S. warship built with a revolutionary rotating gun turret, NOAA reports.

The USS Monitor was the oldest and most important of them, as the first U.S. warship built with a revolutionary rotating gun turret, NOAA reports.