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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96723

USS Monitor (1862)


Photographic mosaic of the ship's remains, composed of individual photographs taken from the research ship Alcoa Seaprobe in April 1974, when Monitor's wreck was initially discovered.
Monitor lies upside down, in badly damaged condition, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. In this image, her bow is to the right, with her turret displaced and visible in the lower left, with the hull resting atop it.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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22 March 2001