TITLE

Saving a sunken treasure

AUTHOR(S)

Pedersen, Daniel

PUB. DATE

May 1998

SOURCE

Newsweek (Pacific Edition);05/04/98, Vol. 131 Issue 18, p50

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports the spring 1998 consideration by the United States Congress whether or not to attempt to raise the wreck of the Civil War Union battleship USS Monitor from its resting place off the coast of North Carolina. Importance of the ship to the course of the Civil War; Review of its March 9, 1862, engagement with the Confederate ship Virginia (formerly the Merrimack); Estimated cost of raising the wreck and other considerations. INSET: An ironclad recovery.

ACCESSION #

596717

Tags: SHIPS;  SHIPWRECKS

 

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