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 layer of marine concretion ...

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 layer ...

Reporting from Newport News, Va. — When archaeologists and Navy divers recovered the warship Monitor’s steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded ...

CAPE HATTERAS, N.C., July 16 -- The 30-ton steam engine that propelled the USS Monitor, the iron clad Civil War vessel that almost 140 years ago helped open a new era of naval warfare, was pulled from ...

Shipyard riggers successfully eased the USS Monitor steam engine into its newly reconfigured cradle this past week, lowering the curtain on a frustrating, nearly three-week-long struggle to prepare ...