USS Monitor : A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broadwater, John D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Monitor (Ironclad)
Excavations (Archaeology) > North Carolina > Hatteras, Cape.
Underwater archaeology > North Carolina > Hatteras, Cape.
Shipwrecks > North Carolina > Hatteras, Cape.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (N.C.)
Hatteras, Cape (N.C.) > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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