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• Another Day… Another Gun Tool!

  • Conservation
  • USS Monitor

  February 16, 2010

  A shot ladle was recovered under the wooden chest in Monitor’s gun turret in 2002. Consisting of a copper scoop nailed to a wooden head, it allowed the gunners to perfectly load/unload the Dahlgren guns.

  

• Gun Carriage Cathodic Protection Anode Upgrade

  February 10, 2010

  

• Wooden Chest Sent to Maryland

  February 8, 2010

  

• Gun Carriage Rotation

  November 9, 2009

  

• New Anodes for the Dahlgren Guns

  October 21, 2009

  

• Wool Coat

  October 9, 2009

  

• Gun Carriages

  October 8, 2009

  

• Gun Carriage Braking Wheel

  September 15, 2009