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 ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Exactly 145 years after the USS Monitor faced the Confederate ship CSS Virginia in the first clash of ironclads, a $30 million center dedicated to the Union vessel opened Friday.

The USS Monitor Center of The Mariners’ Museum held a dedication ceremony honoring the USS Monitor’s Worthington pumps as historic engineering landmarks recognized by the American Society of ...

Nearly 154 years after the USS Monitor was lost at sea, a coat cast off by a desperate crewman trying to abandon the sinking Civil War ship has been conserved and placed on exhibit. The new display at ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — When the turret of the USS Monitor was hoisted from the ocean floor in 2002, the real heavy lifting was just beginning: conserving and restoring more than 200 tons of Civil War ...

RICHMOND, Va. — When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the hulk of the Union Civil War ...

identify artifacts recovered from the wreck of the USS Monitor. off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). high-energy X-ray machine. for ship construction. beneath ...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP) -- When Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists recovered the USS Monitor steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded in a thick layer ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia museum that is home to the USS Monitor’s turret is offering a macabre invitation: the opportunity to be inside the revolving gun housing of the Civil War ironclad on the ...