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USS Monitor gun turret tank drained for 1st time since 2019But recently the tank was drained for the first time since 2019. The alkaline solution in which the turret is usually submerged is working to remove corrosion-inducing ocean salts. Every so often ...
The turret spent nearly 140 years on the ocean floor after the ironclad warship sank during a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The tank housing the historic USS Monitor's gun turret was drained for the first time in years while undergoing conservation efforts at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in ...
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