In preparation for their removal from the turret, photographic documentation was undertaken to record the location and orientation of remaining roof stanchions (in situ in their mounting brackets), which once supported a canvas canopy above the turret. In the photograph below taken in July of 1862, you can see the starboard side of the turret in the background with the roof stanchions and canopy clearly visible. (notice the dents near the gun port!!)
Last week, treatment began on a large fragment of cast iron flooring from Monitor‘s engine room. The fragment was discovered in situ during large scale deconcretion efforts on the engine in December 2010. In the images below, you can see the fragment in place on the engine being supported with straps while concretion was removed to separate it from the engine bed.
As with many objects recovered from the Monitor’s wreck site, this fragment of a cast iron wheel was recovered almost completely contained within a thick mass of sediment and concretion.
Continuing from the post on January 5th………
With the molds completed, it was time to fire up the furnace!!!!!!!!!!!!!
