Love the iron clads especially the monitor

Huge turret for its time and era; impressive engineering.

@knoxklay11: Most of the remaining wreck has been recovered, along with a lot of major engineering components (the engine, the propellor and shaft, etc.). The turret and its guns are the largest single piece to be preserved. As for the Virginia, she essentially ceased to exist after the Confederates blew her up after evacuating Norfolk in May, 1862.

@CHoskins1861

3 жыл бұрын

Virginia/Merrimac's propeller shaft, anchor, and, I think, some plate, are at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA.

Interesting tour and talk, fascinating subject.

It's at the Mariner's Museum in an enclosure near the cannons

Yes, but the Navy is providing the salvage divers & the heavy salvage equipment for the operation.

This is another reason why I love the civil war The ships..... *THE SHIPS!!!!*

@SpadXIIIFlyer From the movie "Glory", film about a black regiment (54th Mass.) in the Civil War

Actually, the first screw propeller he made was on the Princeton.

American history is juz too awesome

@knoxklay11 C.S.S. Virgina (ex U.S.S. Merrimac) was ran aground at Craney island after the confederate army evacuated Norfolk to defend Richmond. & set on fire. the next day May 11, 1862 the fire reached the magazine & the ship exploded. there was not much left afterward.

A buddy of mine's cousin was one of the first divers. A huge barracuda came in their faces and they had to surface. My buddy saw some xrays and photos of some foot bones in a boot. Also, the cousin apparently has a certified chunk of it somewhere...

@majicogarcia8417

8 ай бұрын

That barracuda came in their face HARD.

Which I believe have just recently happened.

actually there was a screw propeller of Revolutionary War submarine the Tortise .... everyone forgets it though.....

The turret is in the tank in the video.

the first propeler ever made by the swede Ericsson =),

hes in a virginia naval museum.

good job

This music, is the theme music from the History Channel game Civil War .

@johngillon6969

3 жыл бұрын

I had to stop watching 3/4 way thru this terrible video. The droneing "music" pissed me off.

so wait a minute, have they recovered the ENTIRE monitor wreck or just the turret? and what about the CSS Virginia? please answer

@hrunchtayt1587

3 жыл бұрын

@charles sutton The hull is unable to be brought up, its completely trashed, unlike the turret.

kind of ironic how the uss monitor was a union ship and it is being displayed a in virginia a former confederate state and in which the monitor faught against, the uss virginia but also known as the merrimack, kind of ironic i think

@Etherdave

4 жыл бұрын

Not ironic. Virginia was a union state whose representatives illegally and rebelliously seceded the state from the United States, which state was subsequently then captured and re-admitted by same. The Monitor did not fight against Virginia but rather against that force claiming to represent it, the illegal (and thus, through acts of aggression against Federal authority, treasonous) organization called the Confederate States Of America, which included an ironclad warship named the CSS Virginia, fabricated from a Union ship that had been scuttled (and was itself then scuttled by Confederate forces... that's the ironic part!). The American Civil War was largely fought over the proposition of whether or not any state could unilaterally leave the Union. Those in favour of this proposition lost the war, and from a historical perspective, their legal case. Today a majority of Americans do not support secession, although they frequently invoke it to give excuse for a party, lynch their fellow Americans, or to liven up a dull Saturday night when NASCAR ain't running. The USS Monitor has a proud place in Newport News, a thriving community and maritime center, which owes its present prosperity to Union victory and Reconstruction, and is only about a mile away from the site of the historic engagement in which the USS Monitor fought.

Music makes yhe information hard to hear

Yeah you're right.

The virginia was blown up!

Ya but "we" have it now...

@40AcreMule Not an idiot, but certainly not an effective tour leader.

Can't see anything in that tank.

@seamanspencer Because Virginia was confederate.

Whats the song, its amazing

@Etherdave

4 жыл бұрын

James Horner's music from the film 'Glory', an account of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Division in the American Civil War.

i wish they could recover the virgina a union ship captured by the confederacy

@fredhunt332

4 жыл бұрын

The USS Merrimack was not captured by the Confederates. It was in dry dock and the Union forces set it on fire and abandoned it. The Confederates quickly opened the water valves and flooded the dry dock and the water put out the fire and spared the hull. That hull was converted to the CSS Virginia.

Ditch the music

They should've left it alone. There's nothing i love more than reading about Civil War history but they disturbed a sailors grave. They stopped people from digging up battlefields for that reason, but money talks i guess. Now they get to display their grave for all the public to see. I personally will never go see it and i live close to this place.

@Revkor

6 жыл бұрын

it's to preserve it. The dead are given respect

@PNolandS

5 жыл бұрын

My main issue is that they display it upside down, WHY WOULD YOU EVER DISPLAY A SHIP UPSIDE DOWN?!?!?