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Topic: Shipwreck

The bow of the iconic Civil War ironclad Monitor resting on the seafloor off North Carolina.

The USS Monitor, Part 1: History and Legacy

July 26, 2026

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Heritage stories

The bow of the iconic Civil War ironclad Monitor resting on the seafloor off North Carolina.

A black and white image of a group of men on the deck of the USS Monitor.

Media advisory: NOAA, Northrop Grumman to release new high-definition sonar images of USS Monitor shipwreck

March 2, 2026

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A black and white image of a group of men on the deck of the USS Monitor.

National Marine Sanctuary System Map showing the locations of all 17 National Marine Sanctuaries and both marine monuments.

How NOAA's sanctuaries got their names

December 2, 2024

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National Marine Sanctuary System Map showing the locations of all 17 National Marine Sanctuaries and both marine monuments.

Photo of a 3D model of a wrought iron anchor from the USS Monitor. The anchor has four prongs and a center column with a ring on top for attaching a line from the ship.

Check out the USS Monitor Virtual Artifact Collection for International Museum Day

May 17, 2024

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Photo of a 3D model of a wrought iron anchor from the USS Monitor. The anchor has four prongs and a center column with a ring on top for attaching a line from the ship.

Photo of a scuba diver swimming past a shipwreck. The story title, "New Study Opens Window to Cultural Past in Great Lakes Sanctuary, By Hans Van Tilburg and Rachel Plunkett" is overlayed onto the image.

New Study Opens Window to Cultural Past in Great Lakes Sanctuary

March 5, 2024

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maritime heritage

Photo of a scuba diver swimming past a shipwreck. The story title, "New Study Opens Window to Cultural Past in Great Lakes Sanctuary, By Hans Van Tilburg and Rachel Plunkett" is overlayed onto the image.

Image of the schooner-barge Ironton as it sits on the lake floor today. This image is a point cloud extracted from water column returns from multibeam sonar.

Frozen in time: Researchers discover lost shipwreck Ironton

March 1, 2023

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Image of the schooner-barge Ironton as it sits on the lake floor today. This image is a point cloud extracted from water column returns from multibeam sonar.

The bow of the iconic Civil War ironclad Monitor resting on the seafloor off North Carolina.

NOAA and partners launch high definition exploration of historic shipwrecks

May 11, 2022

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America the Beautiful

The bow of the iconic Civil War ironclad Monitor resting on the seafloor off North Carolina.

A large boom filled with a brown cargo box is hanging over the ocean while two tug boats wait in the background. A helicopter can also be seen in the sky.

Experts to preview Monitor National Marine Sanctuary shipwreck expedition

April 27, 2022

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A large boom filled with a brown cargo box is hanging over the ocean while two tug boats wait in the background. A helicopter can also be seen in the sky.

This image of an anchor was taken from the 1836 shipwreck site of brig Industry in the Gulf of Mexico by the NOAA ROV deployed from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer on February 25, 2022.

NOAA, partners discover wreck of 207-year-old whaling ship

March 23, 2022

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ocean exploration

This image of an anchor was taken from the 1836 shipwreck site of brig Industry in the Gulf of Mexico by the NOAA ROV deployed from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer on February 25, 2022.

A shipwreck comes into view during a Windows to the Deep dive in 2021.

NOAA discovers SS Bloody Marsh, World War II ship torpedoed by U-boat

November 1, 2021

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ocean exploration

Okeanos Explorer

A shipwreck comes into view during a Windows to the Deep dive in 2021.

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