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28 Apr 2020 3:30 a.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill

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Tango01	27 Apr 2020 10:18 p.m. PST
"It has taken 158 years but it is now possible to stare down the freshly-cleaned barrel of one the Dahlgren guns from the USS Monitor. The ironclad Monitor engaged the Confederate ironclad Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, on March 9th, 1862. It went down in history as the first battle in history between ironclad battleships. Less than a year later, the Monitor sank in a storm off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The wreck was discovered in 1973 and over the decades a few individual pieces were retrieved — the signal lantern, the anchor, personal effects — but in 2002, the Monitor‘s 120-ton gun turret was raised from the wreck site. It contained two XI-inch Dahlgren guns and their carriages…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
Editor in Chief Bill	28 Apr 2020 3:30 a.m. PST
Thanks!
LostPict	29 Apr 2020 8:34 a.m. PST
That is very neat. I have been to that museum many times. It is well worth a visit. They have a 1:1 scale mock-up of the Monitor outside, a 1:1 scale mock-up of the Virginia's forecastle inside that you can go into, plus all the things recovered from the Monitor, and the usual great Naval museum stuff. Also in the area is Nauticus, the battleship USS Wisconsin, the MacArthur museum, Yorktown, Jamestown, and Williamsburg.
Tango01	29 Apr 2020 11:29 a.m. PST
A votre service mon cher Rédacteur en chef! (smile) Amicalement Armand