Keywords: US Navy 020717-N-0331L-004 Monitor salvage and recovery.jpg en Atlantic Ocean Jul 17 2002 -- Navy diver Hull Maintenance Technician 1st Class Steve Grier works on extending a piece of equipment called the spider which is being used to raise the gun turret of the sunken Civil War ironclad USS Monitor The famed warship sank during a storm Dec 31 1862 off Cape Hatteras N C as she was being towed to Beaufort S C Four officers and 12 men were lost with the ship Monitor was located in 1973 sixteen miles off the Cape by a team of scientists The site was designated as the nation's first marine sanctuary in 1975 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 3rd Class Jeffrey Lehrberg RELEASED 2002-07-17 020717-N-0331L-004 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 1959 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 3rd Class Jeffrey Lehrberg PD-USGov-Military-Navy Images from US Navy ship USS Monitor The famed warship sank during a storm Dec 31 1862 off Cape Hatteras N C as she was being towed to Beaufort S C Four officers and 12 men were lost with the ship Monitor was located in 1973 sixteen miles off the Cape by a team of scientists The site was designated as the nation's first marine sanctuary in 1975 U S Navy photo by Photographer ™s Mate 3rd Class Jeffrey Lehrberg RELEASED Hull Maintenance Technician United States Navy USS Monitor ship 1862 Underwater archaeology Underwater photographs of surface supplied divers Underwater work |