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	NOAA 200th: Collections - USS Monitor
		These artifacts illustrate the technological advancements of the Monitor and what life was like for the crew on board this historic vessel.
		The CSS Virginia was a Confederate ironclad built from the burned hull of the USS Merrimack.
		The Monitor was ordered to Hampton Roads in early March 1862 to defend the Union against the powerful Virginia.
	celebrating200years.noaa.gov /monitor/welcome.html (883 words)

	USS Monitor US
		The USS Monitor took an active part in the famous battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862.
		During this battle, the fight of the USS Monitor against the confederate CSS Virginia (which was a frigate sheathed in iron) remains famous.
		This ninth plate case made of brown thermoplastic depicts the USS Monitor living the pier, the stars and stripes fluttering bravely from a pole on her deck.
	www.vieilalbum.com /MonitorUS.htm (263 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - USS Monitor
		USS Monitor was the first ironclad ship to be commissioned into the U.S. Navy.
		USS Monitor was launched on January 30, 1862.
		Currently, Monitor's anchor, red lantern, oarlocks, and various other artifacts are on display as part of The Mariners' permanent exhibition Defending the Seas, which recounts the history of the U.S. Navy.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/monitor.htm (487 words)

	USN Ships--USS Monitor (1862-1862)
		USS Monitor, a 987-ton armored turret gunboat, was built at New York to the design of John Ericsson.
		Monitor arrived there on 9 March, and was immediately sent into action against the Confederate ironclad Virginia, which had sunk two U.S. Navy ships the previous day.
		In this image, her bow is to the right, with her turret displaced and visible in the lower left, with the hull resting atop it.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/monitor.htm (856 words)

	USS Monitor FR
		Il représente le cuirassé USS Monitor de l'armée de l'Union.
		Durant cette bataille, le combat du USS Monitor contre le navire confédéré CSS Virginia (qui était une frégate classique recouverte d'acier) reste célèbre.
		Cet écrin au format 1/9 de plaque représente le USS Monitor quittant son embarcadère, le drapeau de l'union flottant bravement en haut du mat.
	www.vieilalbum.com /MonitorFR.htm (270 words)

	Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack C.S.S. Virginia Civil War Naval Battle
		Monitor arrived there on 9 March, and was immediately sent into action against the Confederate ironclad Virginia, which had sunk two U.S. Navy ships the previous day.
		Following this historic action, Monitor remained in the Hampton Roads area and, in mid-1862 was actively employed along the James River in support of the Army's Peninsular Campaign.
		USS Monitor 's construction resulted from a study of ironclad warships mandated by the Congress in July 1861, as the Civil War moved rapidly from crisis to serious armed conflict.
	americancivilwar.com /monitor.html (1432 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: Preserving the USS Monitor
		The survey was headed by John G. Newton, marine superintendent for the oceanographic program at the Duke Marine Laboratory.* Newton explained that the search area was determined by replotting the track of the USS Rhode Island, a paddlewheel steamer that had been towing the Monitor the night she sank.
		The discovery of the USS Monitor was announced jointly by Duke University and the North Carolina Department of Archives and History on March 7, 1974.
		On March 9, 1987, the 125th anniversary of the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Donald Hodel, designated the USS Monitor a National Historic Landmark.
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /explorations/monitor01/finding/finding.html (886 words)

	"Cheesebox on a Raft" Union Ironclad USS Monitor by Charles Landrum (Battle Axe 1/144)
		To many the radical USS Monitor was going to be the savior that would turn the tide of misfortune suffered by the Federal Government to that point.
		For the engagement Monitor was ballasted low in the water, her intake and exhausts stacks removed and stowed, as were her staffs and davits.
		The Monitor’s propeller and rudder, protected by a skeg, was an ingenious design for a vessel whose intended use was in the shallow waters of the coastal estuaries of the Eastern seaboard.
	hsfeatures.com /ussmonitorcl_1.htm (3911 words)

	USS Monitor, Battleship Development
		On March 9, 1862 the Monitor engaged the Confederate ironclad, Virginia, in battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
		Unfortunately for the growth and development of the Navy during the latter third of the 19th century, appropriations for the completion of this class were not forthcoming and construction was suspended to all intents and purpose in November 1865, when none of the ships had even been launched.
		Modernized, these monitors were new steel ships with lines characteristicly of the monitors ordered during the last two decades of the 19th century.
	www.geocities.com /batdev/monitor.html (1160 words)

	USS Wyoming - The Last Monitor
		When the MONITOR met the CSS VIRGINIA off Hampton Roads in the first duel between ironclads, they demonstrated that all of the worlds navies with their lines of wooden walls were helpless.
		Although the USS MONITOR was obsolete within a short time, (and would sink in a gale while under tow off Cape Hatteras), the US Navy continued to build improved monitor types of single, double, and even triple turret design.
		Ten new monitors were constructed, ordered prior to and during the Spanish American War, and represent the final monitor development in the United States Navy.
	smmlonline.com /articles/wyoming/wyoming.html (899 words)

	The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
		On March 9, 2007, the much-anticipated USS Monitor Center opened its doors, allowing visitors from all over the nation to see for themselves why it is truly one of America’s premier Civil War attractions.
		At the heart of the USS Monitor Center is the exhibition—a melding of artifacts, original documents, paintings, personal accounts, interactives and environments that will pique all five senses.
		The USS Monitor Center will be a definitive national repository, bringing together hundreds of artifacts from the Monitor and a voluminous collection of archives, all being made available for research and study to the public.
	www.mariner.org /exhibitions/ussmonitorcenter (749 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: Preserving the USS Monitor
		Monitor 2001 consisted of five expeditions to the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, conducted in three phases.
		Aug 10 At long last the engine of the USS Monitor was presented by NOAA to the Mariners' Museum.
		April 30 The Navy team aboard the USS Grapple began deploying four large buoys to form a 1/4-mile square around the wreck.
	www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /explorations/monitor01/monitor01.html (800 words)

	USS Monitor - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		The USS Monitor (NCC-61826) was a Nebula-class Federation starship that was in service during the latter half of the 24th century.
		In early 2367, the Monitor patrolled the Romulan Neutral Zone, along with the USS Berlin.
		In William Shatner's book "The Return", the USS Monitor is a Defiant-class vessel that is temporarily renamed Enterprise while mounting a direct offensive against the Borg/Romulan alliance at the Borg homeworld.
	memory-alpha.org /en/index.php?title=USS_Monitor&printable=yes (242 words)

	Monitor Marine National Monument
		The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary protects the wreck of the famed Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, best known for its battle with the Confederate ironclad Virginia in Hampton Roads, Va., on March 9, 1862.
		New: The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council is seeking applicants for diving, heritage tourism, conservation, archaeological research and citizen-at-large members.
		Exactly 145 years after the historic clash between the Civil War ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862, The Mariners’ Museum and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today opened the doors to one of America’s premier maritime Civil War attractions, the new USS Monitor Center.
	monitor.noaa.gov (184 words)

	USS MONITOR \| HavenWorks.com/military/uss-monitor - U.S. Civil War Naval Military History
		"The silt-packed turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised today from the Atlantic floor, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a New Year’s storm."...
		Divers Seek to Raise Turret of Famed USS Monitor.
		"Experts consider the Monitor, the first U.S. warship with no masts and sails, to be the forerunner of the modern Navy."...
	www.havenworks.com /military/uss-monitor (864 words)

	DOCUMENTING THE USS MONITOR
		The fascination that the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, or USS Merrimack depending on your preference, holds for historians, students of history, and the general public is evidenced by the tremendous amount of research materials available on these vessels.
		Notable in these accounts is the respect that the Confederate sailors show to the captain of the USS Cumberland and to John Worden, captain of the Monitor and their admiration of these officers’ bravery.
		These items are listed in Catalog of the Monitor Collection: a Federal Collection of Artifacts and Papers Related to the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and the USS Monitor (Washington, DC: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sanctuaries and Reserves Division, n.d.).
	www.battleshipnc.com /6mhc/sberg.htm (2629 words)

	USS Monitor - AskTheBrain.com
		USS Vessel Management has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content.
		The first battle between the ironclads, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, in Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, forever changed naval warfare.
		The USS Monitor was a groundbreaking vessel in the archives of naval history as it was the first vessel to be designed and built as a turreted warship.
	www.askthebrain.com /monitor_uss-.html (218 words)

	MONITOR by James Tertius deKay
		The succeeding chapters on the Monitor’s subsequent move to Hampton Roads and her race to destiny are exciting and not uneventful.
		The news of the presence of Monitor is met with apprehension and uncertainty.
		The USS Monitor incorporated many new engineering designs including an air blower ventilation system, a flush toilet, and over forty original patents.
	www.beerbritain.com /monitor_by_james_tertius_dekay.htm (3187 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 2493)
		One of the most popular legends in the history of the Monitor, it began with a crewmember from the vessel, Francis B. Butts, who claimed during the night the ironclad sank, he shoved his coat and boots in one cannon, and a cat in the other.
		The cannons were removed from the Monitor's gun turret in 2004 as part of the ongoing conservation process.
		At the heart of the USS Monitor Center is the exhibition—a melding of artifacts, original documents, paintings, personal accounts, interactive displays and environments that will pique all five senses.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2005/s2493.htm (1017 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: Monitor Expedition 2002
		The 140-year-old USS Monitor gun turret was recovered from the bottom of NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary in August, during a 41-day expedition that brought the Civil War relic to the museum for further excavation and conservation.
		Monitor Expedition 2002 was the final phase of a multi-year effort to recover the wreck of this famous Civil War ironclad, located 20 miles off the coast of North Carolina.
		The Monitor sanctuary manager explains that the human remains found in the turret are being carefully cared for in Hawaii.
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /explorations/02monitor/monitor.html (867 words)

	Photo Gallery - USS Monitor - Research and Recovery
		Monitor Marine Sanctuary Director John Broadwater, left, and Cmdr. Bobbie Scholley react as the turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is placed on the deck of awork barge off the coast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Aug 5, 2002.
		The signal lantern used by the Monitor's crew was found during a dive at the wreck.
		The Monitor's anchor was recovered in 1983 and is now currently on display at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, VA. The three ton iron propeller was recovered in 1998 during a joint mission between the Navy, NOAA and other research organizations.(photo: The Mariner's Museum)
	www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov /pgallery/pgmonitor/research/m_research.html (811 words)

	USS Monitor Shipwreck Books
		The Monitor and the Virginia fought to a standstill, neither ship inflicting significant damage upon the other.
		Nevertheless, by the end of that year (1862) both ironclads were gone: the Virginia was blown up by her crew to prevent capture, the Monitor foundered in a gale off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
		The Monitor's next battle became a legal contest: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wanted the ironclad as its own private research domain, the author wanted it open to the public for whom it had been established as a sanctuary.
	www.aquaexplorers.com /garygentilemonitor.htm (590 words)

	CNN.com - Monitor turret raised from ocean - August 6, 2002
		The USS Monitor's gun turret rises from the Atlantic Monday.
		The gun turret from USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic in a salvage mission to recover the historic Civil War ship (August 5)
		Since the Monitor's watery grave was discovered in 1973, research expeditions have studied the wreck.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/08/05/uss.monitor/index.html (740 words)

	CDNN :: Preserving the USS Monitor
		The USS Monitor, launched early in the American Civil War, has been called the U.S. Navy's first modern warship.
		Monitor 2001 consists of five expeditions to the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, to be conducted in three phases.
		Listen to Maritime historian Jeff Johnston of the USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary discuss the mission objectives for the planned recovery of the ship's turret next year.
	www.cdnn.info /news/article/a010824.html (751 words)

	Sinking of the Ironclad USS Monitor
		At daybreak on the 29th of December, 1862, at Fort Monroe, the Monitor hove short her anchor, and by ten o'clock in the forenoon she was under way for Charleston, South Carolina, in charge of Commander J. Bankhead.
		As night approached, the captain of the Monitor wrote, while we could yet see, that if they were forced to abandon their ship, they would burn a red light as a signal.
		When the steamer stopped to allow the hawsers to be cast off the Monitor forged ahead under the impetus of her headway, and came so close up under the steamer's stern, that there was great danger of her running into and cutting the steamer down.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Brad_Haugaard/monitor.htm (3008 words)

	Brooklyn on Line - Brooklyn History - The USS Monitor
		The Monitor was strange in appearance, mostly being underwater except for the gun turret, Confederate sailors where puzzled by it's appearance.
		The Merrimac ran aground in it's attempt to ram the Minnesota, and the Captain of the Monitor was the only Monitor casualty.
		Ericsson felt that if the Navy permitted the Monitors guns to have the full charge he prescribed for the guns, the Monitor would have sunk the Merrimac in 15 minutes.
	www.brooklynonline.com /waterfront/work/monitor.html (847 words)

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