NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — There's work happening to protect a piece of American history in Newport News. Crews are busy working to conserve the USS Monitor's Dahlgren guns at the Mariners' Museum. The ...

Wet lab conservator, Will Hoffman, replaces artifacts from the USS Monitor into containers at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding ...

The silt-packed turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised Monday from the Atlantic floor, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a New Year's storm. The turret, the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The ruddied brown of centuries-old iron serves as a constant source of excitement at the Mariners' Museum: a peek into history for casual visitors, an endless resource for ...

ARLINGTON, Va. – More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad’s turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried ...

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in shallow rivers ...

A crew of workers from Newport News Shipbuilding worked Friday at The Mariners’ Museum on the task of removing — and ultimately replacing — the support structure that has sat beneath the historic gun ...

WASHINGTON — Perhaps they were friends — the older sailor who walked with a limp and always had a pipe clenched in his teeth, and the younger salt with the busted nose and the beat-up, mismatched ...

(CBS News) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - America is about to pay final respects to two of its fallen heroes more than a century after they lost their lives. But we can't tell you who they were and we may never ...

Experts hope that descendants of the recovered sailors may recognize them. March 8, 2012 — -- Do you recognize these handsome gentlemen? They were sailors from the USS Monitor, who died during ...

NEWPORT NEWS – When the turret of the USS Monitor was hoisted from the ocean floor in 2002, the real heavy lifting was just beginning: conserving and restoring more than 200 tons of Civil War ironclad ...

Ceremony occurrs on 151st Anniversary of USS Monitor's Irocnlads Battle March 8, 2013 -- Two unidentified sailors from the Civil War's iconic USS Monitor were buried with full military honors Friday ...