Title USS Monitor : an historic ship completes its final voyage / John D. Broadwater

Edition 1st ed Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series. 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 Summary A hundred and fifty years ago, naval warfare entered a new phase with the introduction of ironclad vessels. On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor, prototype of this new class of warships, fought the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, Virginia, after the Virginia had ravaged the Union fleet blockading the James River, sinking larger, seemingly more powerful wooden warships in a potent demonstration of the power of an armored, heavily-gunned, steam-powered warship. In the world's first clash between iron-armored warships, Monitor and Virginia exchanged gunfire at close range for nea Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Monitor (Ironclad) SUBJECT Monitor (Ironclad) fast Subject Shipwrecks -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape Underwater archaeology -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape Excavations (Archaeology) -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Military operations, Naval Shipwrecks Underwater archaeology SUBJECT Hatteras, Cape (N.C.) -- Antiquities Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (N.C.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003165 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140251 Subject North Carolina -- Cape Hatteras North Carolina -- Monitor National Marine Sanctuary United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781603447492 1603447490

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