NOAA and Northrop Grumman will release the first-ever high definition sonar images of the USS Monitor shipwreck site during a ...

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 ...

The turret spent nearly 140 years on the ocean floor after the ironclad warship sank during a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862.

For the first time in six years, the USS Monitor's turret tank is being drained, and that will allow people to see the usually hidden turret. Curtis Gerald Smith, 44, was sentenced to two life-terms ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – For the first time in six years, the USS Monitor’s turret tank is being drained, allowing visitors the opportunity to view the usually hidden turret. The turret is being ...

The Virginia museum that holds the turret of the sunken Civil War ironclad USS Monitor says it is closing the laboratory where the artifact is located because of a lack of federal funding. The ...

The Virginia museum that is home to the USS Monitor's turret is offering a macabre invitation: the opportunity to be inside the revolving gun housing of the Civil War ironclad on the anniversary of ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The Mariners' Museum has resumed work to conserve and restore the USS Monitor's turrent and other large artifacts from the Civil War ironclad. The work is being done in the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Anna Holloway is a Vice President for Collections and Programs in the Mariners' Museum with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2012 Speech as ...