Wet lab conservator, Will Hoffman, replaces artifacts from the USS Monitor into containers at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank was ...

One of the nation’s most revered military shipwrecks was visited in May by a NOAA-backed team and they made a surprising discovery 16 miles off North Carolina. The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is ...

NORTH CAROLINA -- One of the nation's most revered military shipwrecks was visited in May by a NOAA-backed team and they made a surprising discovery 16 miles off North Carolina. The Civil War ironclad ...

A century and a half after USS Monitor sank, the interment of two unknown crewmen found in the Civil War ironclad’s turret is bringing together people from across the country with distant but powerful ...

Meet two faces from the past -- Union sailors who perished on the USS Monitor 150 years ago as the ironclad ship foundered in rough seas off Cape Hatteras. At a ceremony in Washington, D.C. this ...

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in shallow rivers ...

ARLINGTON, Va. – More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad's turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - The ruddied brown of centuries-old iron serves as a constant source of excitement at the Mariners’ Museum: a peek into history for casual visitors, an endless resource for ...

A crew of workers from Newport News Shipbuilding worked Friday at The Mariners’ Museum on the task of removing — and ultimately replacing — the support structure that has sat beneath the historic gun ...