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USS Monitor Turret Recovery News
20020806
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![''The USS Monitor's gun turret rises from the Atlantic Monday [August 5th, 2002].'' -CNN](../../images/fair-use/thumbnails/news/cnn/fair-use-thumbnail-20020805-USS-Monitor-revolving-gun-turret-raised-from-ocean.jpg) "Monitor
turret raised from ocean: 'World's first armored
revolving gun turret'." ... "In March 1862, the Monitor, a Union vessel
designed by 19th-century engineer John Ericcson, battled with the Confederate
ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly the Union ship USS Merrimack) in a four-hour
duel off Hampton Roads, Virginia. The first battle of the ironclads ended
in a draw." -CNN
20020805
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"Historic
USS Monitor turret raised." ... "The silt-packed
turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised today from the
Atlantic floor, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during
a New Year’s storm." ... "The turret, on which hung an American flag, was
raised at the end of a heavy cable attached to a crane on a 300-foot work
barge." ... "The turret was raised during a $6.5 million expedition by
the U.S. Navy, led by a dive team from Little Creek Amphibious Base in
Norfolk, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which
controls the underwater sanctuary where the wreckage is." -By
Mark St. John Erickson -AP
via -Newsday.com
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"Skeleton
found in Civil War ironclad." ... ""We have a fairly
complete skeleton," said John Broadwater, manager of the Monitor National
Marine Sanctuary and chief scientist for the Monitor expedition." ... "The
lower part of the skeleton was pinned beneath one of the two cannons inside
the turret, he said." ... ""We will make every attempt to identify this
crew member," Broadwater said." -AP
via -CNN
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"Heavy
seas slow salvage of USS Monitor's turret." ... "With
the weather expected to deteriorate even further by mid-week, the commander
of the Navy recovery operation acknowledged that the window of opportunity
for hoisting the 200-ton turret from the sea floor is shrinking." -By
Mike Toner -AJC
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"Diver
positioning cables to pull up gun turret from ocean floor."
... "The Union ship and the Confederate vessel CSS Virginia revolutionized
naval warfare when they fought to a draw on March 9, 1862 near Newport
News, Va. It was the first battle of ironclads - ships covered in iron
plates to repel cannon balls." ... "The Virginia had banks of guns, but
the entire ship had to be moved to get the best firing angles. The Monitor's
revolving cylindrical turret allowed the ship to fire accurately while
staying out of harm's way." -By Sonja Barisic
-AP via -NandoTimes
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"Divers
Seek to Raise Turret of Famed USS Monitor." ... "Experts
consider the Monitor, the first U.S. warship with no masts and sails, to
be the forerunner of the modern Navy." ... "Powered by steam alone, it
was constructed almost entirely of iron and bore a revolving gun turret
9 feet high and 22 feet in diameter housing two 11-inch cannons."
-Reuters
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"After
139 Years, Another Piece of the Monitor." ... "The
bulk of the underwater work is performed by what the Navy calls "saturation
divers," who work on the ocean floor for up to six hours at a time and
live in pressurized bubbles on the barge for more than a week at a time."
... "The "sat divers" descend in a diving bell, the air around them pressing
at 100 pounds per square inch -- six times as great as the Earth's atmosphere
at sea level. They use a modern fiberglass helmet called an MK-17 instead
of the once ubiquitous copper helmet. Their bodies, saturated with helium-oxygen,
can withstand the depths for long periods." -By Michael
D. Shear -WashingtonPost
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"Divers
readying cables to raise USS Monitor." ... "A Navy
diver worked Monday to position the cables needed to haul up the gun turret
of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor after nearly 140 years on the ocean
floor." ... "A 500-ton crane aboard a barge moored above the Monitor wreckage,
16 miles off Cape Hatteras [North Carolina], is to pull up the revolving
turret." -AP
via -CNN
20020804
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"Civil
War wreck yields skeleton." ... "While examining
the turret - which contains two 7,700-kilogramme (17,000-pound) guns -
the expedition's chief scientist said US navy divers found a "fairly complete
skeleton" pinned beneath it." ... ""We will make every attempt to identify
this crew member," John Broadwater said, adding that buttons and scraps
of cloth -perhaps fragments of a uniform - were also found." -BBC
/News
20020803
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"War
artifact set for new adventure: Ironclad battleship's
turret, a watery grave for Civil War seamen, will be retrieved and restored."
... "This summer, working 20 miles offshore and in 240 feet of water, a
team that included 70 Navy divers went after the most important part of
the Monitor--the gun turret." ... "The Navy is funding $6.5 million of
the $7 million cost of the recovery expedition, which it is using to train
its deep-sea divers in a new technique called "saturation diving." Divers
use bell habitats on the bottom to stay below 12 to 14 days at a stretch
instead of the four to five hours they are limited to when required to
resurface every day." -By Michael Kilian
-ChicagoTribune
20020801
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"Raising
the Monitor: Divers Save the Civil War
Ironclad." ... "Every schoolchild learns the story of the Monitor,
which fought the Confederate ironclad Virginia in on March 9, 1862.
The two ships could barely dent each other. They battled to a draw in the
waters off Hampton Roads, Va." ... "The genius of the Monitor's
design was primarily in its famous round gun turret. Unlike anything that
had come before, it could be aimed — no more turning the whole ship to
point the guns at the enemy. With just two guns, the Monitor could
take on ships with 100." -By Ned Potter
-ABCNEWS.com
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