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| Keywords: US Navy 020727-N-3725V-003 Artifacts recovered from the USS Monitor.jpg en Off the coast of Cape Hatteras N C Jul 27 2002 U S Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 MDSU-2 display some of the many artifacts recovered from the site around the sunken civil war-era ironclad USS Monitor MDSU-2 is home ported at the Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk Va MDSU-2 and is currently assisting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA to recover the ship s gun turret 11-inch Dahlgren cannons and other artifacts from the historic vessel Artifacts recovered from the site will eventually be on public display in the Mariners Museum in Newport News Va The famed warship sank during a storm Dec 31 1862 off Cape Hatteras N C while being towed to Beaufort S C Four officers and 12 men were lost with the ship U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 1st Class Chadwick Vann RELEASED For more information go to <a href http //monitor nos noaa gov Target _BLANK >http //monitor nos noaa gov</a> 2002-07-27 020727-N-3725V-003 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 2158 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 1st Class Chadwick Vann PD-USGov-Military-Navy Images from US Navy location Off the coast of Cape Hatteras N C USS Monitor ship 1862 July 2002 photographs | ||||
