From the Nov. 23, 2012, Richmond (Va) Times-Dispatch :Auction offers macabre U.S.S. Monitor opportunity."
Now, you and up to five of your closest friends can have the experience of as lifetime and spend the night of December 30-Dec. 31st in the turret of said ship, exactly 150 years to the day the ship sank.
The Mariner's Museum and Monitor National Marine Sanctuary in Newport News, Virginia, is having an e-Bay auction with bids opening at $1,000 and with an undisclosed reserve price. Funds raised will help go to the preservation of the turret which alone costs some $2,000 a day.
The famous USS Monitor sank between midnight December 30th and 1 AM December 31st. Sixteen of the 52-man crew died that night. Two of those skeletons were found in the turret after it was raised.
The two Dahlgrean guns in the turret have been removed for conservation. The successful bidder also receive lodging near the museum as well as food and entertainment at the museum.as well as time in the 20-foot diameter turret.
Calling All My Friends. --Old B-Runner
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