A few days after Christmas in 1862, during the height of the US civil war, the ironclad warship, USS Monitor, sank to the bottom of the Atlantic. Now 160 years later, the shipwreck has become an unlikely testbed for marine conservation
ON Christmas Day 1862, during the height of the US civil war, the crew of the ironclad warship the USS Monitor sat down to a decadent dinner. On the menu was turkey, mashed potatoes, plum pudding and fruitcake – rare treats for the sailors who had spent months subsisting on mostly crackers and salted pork. But events were about to take a less festive turn.down the east coast.
One evening, as darkness fell, sleet and snow blew in sideways and the ship rode a rollercoaster of 9-metre-high waves. It took on water and, before long, came to a sorry end at the bottom of the AtlanticIf things had ended there, the Monitor would only be remembered by military historians. But that wasn’t the final chapter of its story.
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