{"id":5018,"date":"2010-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2010\/12\/the-mariners-museum-conservators-restore-uss-monitors-steam-engine-2\/"},"modified":"2010-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T05:00:00","slug":"the-mariners-museum-conservators-restore-uss-monitors-steam-engine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2010\/12\/15\/the-mariners-museum-conservators-restore-uss-monitors-steam-engine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mariners&#8217; Museum conservators restore USS Monitor&#8217;s steam engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEWPORT NEWS  &#8211;  When Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists recovered the USS Monitor steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded in a thick layer of marine concretion.<\/p>\n<p>Sand, mud and corrosion combined with minerals in the deep Cape Hatteras, N.C., waters to cloak every feature of Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson&#8217;s ingenious machine, and they continued to envelop the 30-ton artifact after nine years of desalination treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Just this past week, however, conservators at The Mariners&#8217; Museum and its USS Monitor Center drained the 35,000-gallon solution in which the massive engine was submerged and began removing the 2- to 3-inch-thick layer of concretion with hammers, chisels and other hand tools.<\/p>\n<p>Working slowly and carefully to avoid harming the engine&#8217;s original surface, they stripped off more than 2 tons of encrustation in their first week of work alone, gradually revealing the details of a naval milestone that had not been seen since the historic Union ironclad sank in a December 1862 storm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.Read the <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ftalternatingbarlinklarge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/dp-monitor-steam-engine-1210,0,2101784.story\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full article as it appears in The Daily Press.<\/a>, with video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/media\/alternatethumbnails\/story\/2010-12\/58196820-10050324.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT NEWS &#8211; When Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists recovered the USS Monitor steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded in a thick layer of marine concretion. Sand, mud and corrosion combined with minerals in the deep Cape Hatteras, N.C., waters to cloak every feature of Swedish-American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2010\/12\/15\/the-mariners-museum-conservators-restore-uss-monitors-steam-engine-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mariners&#8217; Museum conservators restore USS Monitor&#8217;s steam engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}