Silt-filled turret of USS Monitor raised from Atlantic

Durham Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) / AP ^ | August 5, 2002 | Sonja Barisic, Associated Press Writer

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My apologies if this was already posted, but I did do a search.

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This...is....awesome.....can't wait to see this piece of history.

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Monitor ping!

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Ping!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Fantastic. Part of those relics of the Monitor could be used/displayed by the Christian Scientists at their world headquarters.

[billbears]

Well now you see!! Giddy Dolt won't be able to fulfill her promise. Remember a couple of months ago she made the comment about the leaders in this state not allowing her to speak at the USS North Carolina and maybe wanting her to speak from the deck of the Monitor? I say we put it back and let her do it!! Two birds with one stone

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The turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is lifted out of the Atlantic Ocean on Monday.
STEVE HELBER/AP

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This...is....awesome.....can't wait to see this piece of history.

Check out #7.

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Fess up.

You're in love with her, aren't you?

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A crane capable of lifting a 500-ton load was used to pull the turret from 240 feet of water

That's a big crane!

[billbears]

LOL!!! ACCKKK!! It's nice to see in the article they called it the CSS Virginia instead of the Merrimack

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Kudos!

[Constitution Day]

Thanks.

BTTT

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Yes, isn't it?

OTOH, the N&O would have injected PC into the article somehow.

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Navy Heritage Bump!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for posting and pinging!

When I read your article, it confirmed what I thought I had heard on FOX News this week:

On Saturday, divers were able to remove much of a human skeleton found inside the turret. It is believed to be that of one of the 16 Monitor sailors who died when the ship sank in a storm on Dec. 31, 1862, and landed upside down in 240 feet of water. The lower part of the skeleton is pinned beneath one of the turret's twin cannons.

The remains were taken from the barge in two plastic containers and were to be analyzed, then buried with military honors.

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And here is a link to the USS Monitor:

Legacy of the USS Monitor
http://home.att.net/~iron.clad/

Time Line of The Civil War, 1862

Be watching. I'll be posting more stuff to "ALL"..........

[MeekOneGOP]

http://www.maritime.org/hnsa-monitor.htm

USS MONITOR

Courtesy of © The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia

USS Monitor is a National Historic Landmark.

Class: Monitor turreted warship
Launched: January 30, 1862
At: Greenpoint, New York
Commissioned: February 25, 1862

Length: 172 feet
Beam: 41.4 feet
Draft: 9.5 feet
Displacement: 1,038 tons
Armament: Two eleven-inch Dahlgren guns

Address:
The Mariners' Museum
100 Museum Drive
Newport News, Virginia 23606
(757) 596-2222
Fax: (757) 591-7320
Email: info@mariner.org
http://www.mariner.org

[maxwell]

Hey bro, thought I saw something about this on the news the other night... Pretty hardcore, huh. I'll be in-nerested in seeing what all they find in that thing.

[MeekOneGOP]

August 1998 Marks the 25th Anniversary of the Location of the Wreck of the USS Monitor
Excerpt:

On Friday, March 8, 1974, John G. Newton, marine superintendent for the oceanographic program at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina, made the long-awaited announcement that five months of analysis of underwater television pictures, photographs, and historical records had confirmed discovery of the wreck of the Civil War ironclad, USS Monitor.

[stand watie]

now if we could just get the rest of the monitor up and restore it.

free dixie,sw