TY - BOOK AU - Broadwater,John D. ED - Project Muse. TI - USS Monitor: an historic ship completes its final voyage T2 - Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series SN - 9781603447492 AV - E595.M7 B76 2012 U1 - 973.7/58 23 PY - 2012/// CY - College Station PB - Texas A&M University Press KW - Monitor (Ironclad) KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - North Carolina KW - Hatteras, Cape KW - Underwater archaeology KW - Shipwrecks KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Naval operations KW - Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (N.C.) KW - Hatteras, Cape (N.C.) KW - Antiquities KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 -- Investigating Monitor -- 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 -- In Monitor'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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781603447492/ ER -