• USS Monitor : an historic ship completes itsfinal voyage
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: an historic ship completes itsfinal voyage
    Author: BroadwaterJohn D,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: College Station
    Published: Texas A&M University Press;
    Year of Publication: 2012
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Description: 1 online resource (338 p.).
    Series: Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
    Subject: Excavations (Archaeology) - North Carolina -
    Subject: Underwater archaeology - North Carolina -
    Subject: Shipwrecks - North Carolina -
    Subject: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 -
    Subject: Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (N.C.) -
    Subject: Hatteras, Cape (N.C.) - Antiquities -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781603447492/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9781603447492electronic bk.
    ISBN: 1603447490electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9781603444736hbk.
    ISBN: 1603444734hbk.
    ISBN: 9781603444743pbk.
    ISBN: 1603444742pbk.
    Content Note: Prologue: first encounter -- "The Monitor is no more" -- Following new orders -- Facing the Cape -- Both ironclads in trouble -- Distress aboard Monitor -- "The Monitor is no more" -- Discovery-- Early attempts to locate Monitor -- Discovery and positive identification of Monitor-- The formal announcement and follow-up plans -- The R/V Alcoa seaprobe mapping cruise, April 1974 -- Story of an ironclad -- The slow evolution of naval technology -- Arms versus armor -- American ironclads capture the world's attention -- The ultimate test: the battle of Hampton Roads -- A sanctuary for America -- Protecting Monitor -- InvestigatingMonitor -- NOAA/Harbor Branch Foundation submersible expeditions -- NOAA reassesses its management strategy -- Institutional and private research expeditions,1974-1979 -- Private dive expeditions,1990-1997 -- Next steps -- Charting a new course for the Monitor -- Escalating management issues -- Reassessment of Monitor management strategy -- Congressional mandate for a Monitor preservation plan -- Development of the comprehensive, long-range plan -- Summary of the final comprehensive, long-range plan -- Final recommendations -- Initial planning and implementation -- Implementing the recovery plan -- Help from a new source -- Propeller recovery expedition, 1998 -- Data collection expedition, 1999 -- Engineering the recovery of Monitor's machinery --Hull stabilization and deployment of engine recovery structure, 2000 -- Steam engine recovery, 2001-- Monitor completes its final voyage -- Gun turret recovery, 2002 -- 2002 Monitor expedition -- InMonitor's turret -- Entering a tomb -- Monitor completes its final voyage -- The turret's final journey -- Back in the turret -- Revelations from the turret -- The sanctuary's future -- Epilogue: telling Monitor's story
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