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• The port gun carriage on the right track

  • Conservation
  • USS Monitor

  April 8, 2020

  It has been too long since we’ve given an update on the conservation of Monitor’s port gun carriage. So long in fact, that the conservation of its 250-ish components are now complete!!!

  

• Dahlgren plans, and a new face in the tank farm!

  • Conservation
  • USS Monitor

  August 1, 2018

  Marine archaeological guns always have one big problem in particular – how do you clean the inside?

  

• Dry ice blasting in the tank farm!

  • Conservation
  • Science
  • USS Monitor

  June 8, 2023

  Learn more about what the Monitor Conservation team was up to in the spring, detailing the process we go through when working in the tank farm and treating larger objects!

  

• A word from our summer intern, Kim

  • Conservation
  • USS Monitor

  June 19, 2017

  My name is Kim, and I’m an intern at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in the Batten Conservation Complex this summer.

  

• Port gun carriage follow-up

  April 22, 2016

  

• USS Monitor Skeg Elements Move

  • Collections
  • Conservation
  • Military
  • USS Monitor

  April 5, 2022

  Watch our Conservation team move USS Monitor's skeg elements out of their treatment tanks and over to our tank farm where they will undergo dry-ice cleaning.

  

• What else?!

  October 21, 2016

  

• Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, into the tanks we go. . .

  August 12, 2016