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"Recovering a lost ship that forever changed war at sea ... On March 9, 1862, USS Monitor, prototype of a new class of armored warships, fought the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, Virginia, only a day after Virginia had ravaged the Union fleet blockading the James River. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Broadwater, John D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A and M University Press, [2012]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
Subjects:
Monitor (Ironclad)
Shipwrecks > North Carolina > Hatteras, Cape.
Underwater archaeology > North Carolina > Hatteras, Cape.
Excavations (Archaeology) > North Carolina > Hatteras, Cape.
Hatteras, Cape (N.C.) > Antiquities.
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (N.C.)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.
Naufrages > Caroline du Nord > Hatteras, Cap.
Archéologie sous-marine > Caroline du Nord > Hatteras, Cap.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Caroline du Nord > Hatteras, Cap.
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (Car. du N.)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Opérations navales.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Military operations, Naval.
Shipwrecks.
Underwater archaeology.
North Carolina > Cape Hatteras.
North Carolina > Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.
United States.
1861-1865
History.
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: first encounter
  • "The Monitor is no more"
  • Following new orders
  • Facing the Cape
  • Both ironclads in trouble
  • Distress aboard Monitor
  • "The Monitor is no more"
  • Discovery
  • Early attempts to locate Monitor
  • Discovery and positive identification of Monitor
  • The formal announcement and follow-up plans
  • The R/V Alcoa seaprobe mapping cruise, April 1974
  • Story of an ironclad
  • The slow evolution of naval technology
  • Arms versus armor
  • American ironclads capture the world's attention
  • The ultimate test: the battle of Hampton Roads
  • A sanctuary for America
  • Protecting Monitor
  • Investigating Monitor
  • NOAA/Harbor Branch Foundation submersible expeditions
  • NOAA reassesses its management strategy
  • Institutional and private research expeditions, 1974-1979
  • Private dive expeditions,1990-1997
  • Next steps
  • Charting a new course for the Monitor
  • Escalating management issues
  • Reassessment of Monitor management strategy
  • Congressional mandate for a Monitor preservation plan
  • Development of the comprehensive, long-range plan
  • Summary of the final comprehensive, long-range plan
  • Final recommendations
  • Initial planning and implementation
  • Implementing the recovery plan
  • Help from a new source
  • Propeller recovery expedition, 1998
  • Data collection expedition, 1999
  • Engineering the recovery of Monitor's machinery
  • Hull stabilization and deployment of engine recovery structure, 2000
  • Steam engine recovery, 2001
  • Monitor completes its final voyage
  • Gun turret recovery, 2002
  • 2002 Monitor expedition
  • In Monitor's turret
  • Entering a tomb
  • Monitor completes its final voyage
  • The turret's final journey
  • Back in the turret
  • Revelations from the turret
  • The sanctuary's future
  • Epilogue: telling Monitor's story.