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 was ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — It participated in one of the most famous Naval battles in American history. The ironclad USS Monitor fought to a draw with the CSS Virginia in 1862 in the waters of Hampton Roads ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – Back in 1978 we got our first view of the USS Monitor since it sank off the coast of Noth Carolina on December 31, 1862. The Monitor was the famous ironclad ship of the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – 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 turret is being ...

A crew of workers from Newport News Shipbuilding worked Friday at The Mariners’ Museum on the task of removing — and ultimately replacing — the support structure that has sat beneath the historic gun ...

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 ...

The USS Monitor revolutionized warfare with its rotating turret and iron armor, forever altering naval design. But less than ...

The Mariners’ Museum On certain days, the turret tank is drained so conservators are able to work inside it. Treatment includes removing interior plating, cleaning and stabilization. The Mariners’ ...

HATTERAS, N.C. -- The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised Monday from the floor of the Atlantic, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a storm ...

NOAA and the U.S. Navy have succeeded in raising the world's first armored revolving gun turret from the wreck of the famous Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, which rests below 240 ft. of water 16 miles ...

For almost 140 years, the gun turret of the USS Monitor sat at the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina — so what’s a little more time when it comes to the meticulous ...