Mariners' Museum bores gun of ironclad Monitor, big step toward displaying the weapon

[The Patriot]

Mariners' Museum bores gun of ironclad Monitor, big step toward displaying the weapons

02-26-2020 07:58 AM

An 8-ton Dahlgren gun has sat in a chemical bath at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News for several years. For the 140 years before that, it sat on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean about 17 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. And before that, it was in the rotating turret of the famed Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.


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