Ironclad: The Epic Battle, Calamitous Loss, and Historic Recovery of the USS Monitor
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The Rise, Sinking and Salvage of a Civil War Icon
Paul Clancy traces the full story of USS Monitor, the revolutionary ironclad whose clash with CSS Virginia changed naval warfare, and follows the ship through its loss in a storm off Cape Hatteras to the modern maritime archaeology project that recovered its turret and engine from the seabed more than a century later.
The book combines Civil War naval history with the ...
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The Rise, Sinking and Salvage of a Civil War Icon
Paul Clancy traces the full story of USS Monitor, the revolutionary ironclad whose clash with CSS Virginia changed naval warfare, and follows the ship through its loss in a storm off Cape Hatteras to the modern maritime archaeology project that recovered its turret and engine from the seabed more than a century later.
The book combines Civil War naval history with the technical and human drama of underwater salvage, giving equal weight to the vessel's original construction and combat record and to the decades-long effort to bring pieces of it back to the surface.
Recommended for readers interested in Civil War history, naval engineering or maritime archaeology.
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