On August 5, 2002, nearly 140 years after the sinking of the historic Civil War ironclad, USS Monitor, Monitor’s turret was raised 240 feet from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The turret was placed on a barge and taken to The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia, the principal repository for Monitor artifacts. This three-day trip from Monitor National Marine Sanctuary to the museum marked the beginning of a long journey of preservation and conservation that continues today.
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