From the August 2, 2022, Chesapeake Bay Magazine"Anniversary celebration: Ironclad Civil War ship's turret pulled from the ocean" by Kendall Osborne.
It was 20 years ago this week that the turret of the famous USS Monitor was pulled off the ocea floor of North Carolina.
The ship of course, had that famous battle with the ironclad CSS Vorginia at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862, and then sank the last day of 1862 before being found in August 1973. Exploration and recovery began with smaller pars of the ship being brought up like the propeller. The largest piece broke the surface of the Atlantic Ocean on August 5, 2002, the turret and was taken to the Mariners' Museum for preservation.
The recovery of the turret was no small feat. It took 41 days and 160 divers, mostly from the U.S. Navy, to get the turret to the surface, and it has since most of the last twenty years in an Electrolyte Reduction (ER) System in a 90,000 gallon tank to keep it protected.
--Old B-Runner
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