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 of their ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia -- 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 ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - 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 ...

The Virginia museum that holds the famous turret of the sunken Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor says it is closing the laboratory that houses the artifact because of a lack of federal funding.

The order to abandon ship came just after midnight. The USS Monitor, a Union ironclad, was taking on too much water, caught in a violent storm. At approximately 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, 1862, the Monitor ...

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 ...

Nearly 155 years after one of America’s greatest naval engineers choose them for history’s first mechanized warship, two Worthington pumps recovered from the wreck of the Civil War ironclad USS ...

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 ...

For more than 150 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., the landmark engines and pumps that drove history’s first mechanized warship have been silent.