Broadwater, John D.
USS Monitor : a historic ship completes its final voyage / John D. Broadwater ; foreword by James P. Delgado. - College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2012. - xiv, 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. - Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series. . - Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781603444736 (cloth : alk. paper) 1603444734 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781603444743 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1603444742 (pbk. : alk. paper)
40020695948
2011036725
Monitor (Ironclad)
Shipwrecks--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape.
Underwater archaeology--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape.
Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape.
Hatteras, Cape (N.C.)--Antiquities.
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (N.C.)
United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865
E595.M7 / B76 2012
973.7/58
USS Monitor : a historic ship completes its final voyage / John D. Broadwater ; foreword by James P. Delgado. - College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2012. - xiv, 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. - Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series. . - Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781603444736 (cloth : alk. paper) 1603444734 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781603444743 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1603444742 (pbk. : alk. paper)
40020695948
2011036725
Monitor (Ironclad)
Shipwrecks--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape.
Underwater archaeology--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape.
Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina--Hatteras, Cape.
Hatteras, Cape (N.C.)--Antiquities.
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (N.C.)
United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865
E595.M7 / B76 2012
973.7/58