USS Monitor Receives Nearly $100,000 in Grant Money

Having to take a break from the sun down here at Panama City Beach, so will get in some blogs.

From the April 28, 2015, Pilot (Hampton Roads, Va.) Online "Museum gets grant for USS Monitor conservation" by AP.

The Mariners Museum in Newport News has received a federal grant for nearly $100,000 to work on the Monitor.  Congress has designated the museum as the official repository of artifacts of the Monitor.

This is a far cry from January 2014, when the wet lab conserving the ship was closed when there was a federal funding shortfall.  Work on the ship resumed in May 2014 with a $200,000 grant from the NOAA.

--Old B-Runner