There And Back Again: The Ironclad Monitor's Tale
Author(s): Tane Renata Casserley
Year: 2016
Summary
Situated just 16 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary protects the shipwreck of the famed Civil War ironclad, USS Monitor. In 2015, thirteen years after the turret was recovered, NOAA launched an expedition back to the Monitor to document the site. Using closed circuit rebreathers, NOAA and its partners are using the latest technology to assess the ironclad’s current state of preservation. This presentation will highlight NOAA’s efforts to protect the shipwreck and its history above and below the waves.
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There And Back Again: The Ironclad Monitor's Tale. Tane Renata Casserley. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434302)
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Keywords
General
Civil War
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Monitor
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Preservation
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
US Civil War
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 307