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Engine from USS Monitor rises to surface off North Carolina
Navy and NOAA recovered the steam engine of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. The 0 ton engine was raised from 230 feet of water 16 miles off Hatteras Inlet and would be moved to the Mariner's Museum in Newport News Virginia. The project, budgeted at about 5.5 million, follows decades of underwater work by divers in special suits. The Monitor sank December 31 1862 during a storm while being towed to North Carolina, killing 16.
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