NEWPORT NEWS (AP) -- When Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists recovered the USS Monitor steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded in a thick ...

For more than 150 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., the landmark engines and pumps that drove history’s first mechanized warship have bee… ...

Nearly 155 years after one of America’s greatest naval engineers choose them for history’s first mechanized warship, two Worthington pumps recovered from the wreck of the Civil War iron… ...

Conservators drained the historic USS Monitor gun turret for the first time in more than a year this week as they prepared the giant Civil War artifact for its first major conservation and ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — When the turret of the USS Monitor was hoisted from the ocean floor in 2002, the real heavy lifting was just beginning: conserving and restoring more than 200 tons of Civil ...

NEWPORT NEWS — Conservators drained the 90,000-gallon treatment tank holding the USS Monitor gun turret Monday, enabling them to, for the first time since 2012, visually inspect the progress of ...

Quarstein is the chief development officer of the USS Monitor Foundation and has written three books about Civil War ironclads, as well as working on other topics and PBS documentaries.

Divers off the North Carolina coast are trying to preserve and salvage one of the country's most famous shipwrecks, theUSS Monitor. "Hatteras is noted for its weather.

ABOVE: A multibeam sonar image shows the shipwreck in 2016. It lies 16 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. LEFT: A diver is shown near the Monitor.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - When the turret of the USS Monitor was hoisted from the ocean floor in 2002, the real heavy lifting was just beginning: conserving ...