From July 1998 Sea Technology.
On June 5th, divers recovered the Monitor's propeller along with the propeller well cover and a deck plate. It was necessary to cut through nine inches of solid iron to get the propeller and eleven feet of shaft weighing 3 tons. The propeller is about 9 feet in diameter.
It was designed by Swedish-American engineer John Ericsson and experts say it is one of finest-surviving examples of naval power improvement in screw propulsion.
The Monitor's wreck is 230 feet deep about 16 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It sank in a storm December 31, 1862. A full size replica of the Monitor is now at the Mariner's Museum in Virginia.
The anchor was recovered in 1983.
I always have to wonder why no effort was made to save examples of Civil War ships back in the 1800s, and it is especially sad that there were still monitors and other ships afloat into the early 1900s.
At least some of the ships have full-size replicas like the Monitor, CSS Neuse in NC and USS/CSS Water Witch in Georgia.
Oh, Well. --Old B-Runner
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