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 has taken three months of painstaking excavation, but archaeologists and conservators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Mariners' Museum have ...

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 ...

It was actually a self-propelled gun (also known as an assault gun). Instead of mounting the gun in a revolving turret as in a regular tank, the gun was stuck into the front hull, which meant it could ...