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. (AP) — A federal grant will help conserve the iconic revolving gun turret of the USS Monitor. The Daily Press reports that the Institute of Museum and Library Services is giving more ...

How does Syracuse connect to the USS Monitor, the famous Civil War ironclad ship? The Monitor's been in the news recently as historians try to identify two skeletons found in the ship's turret when it ...

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