Word: monitor
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...CRIMSON today inaugurated its campaign to raise the U.S.S. Monitor, the famous Union ironclad which fought an historic battle with the Confederate ship Merrimac on March 9, 1862. The ship was discovered in 120 feet (20 fathoms) of water, 20 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, according to an Associated Press dispatch yesterday. Sixth Naval District spokesmen said they have "no plans" for raising...
...Monitor's famed Civil-War duel with the Merrimac took place off Newport News, Virginia. She foundered in a gale off Cape Hatteras on December...
...CRIMSON campaign has been officially named "American Students for Raising the Monitor." It seeks to rally students and other patriotic citizens to the cause of preserving the Ironclad as a National monument. A public statement in the form of a poem (printed above) has been composed by leaders of the campaign as the opening salvo...
Robert G. Albion, Gardner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Some observers believe that he is now in Washington, D.C., spearheading a separate drive to raise the Monitor and dedicates her as a national shrine...
...attack on the New Statesman was written by Richard Strout, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and briefly U.S. correspondent for the New Statesman during a period when, as he said, he was "unfamiliar with its prejudices." Wrote Strout: "There is something uncanny in the way New Statesman dispatches from all over the world . . . converge ultimately on the faults of the U.S. . . . Doubts arise sometimes as to whether the New Statesman is not merely following the party line. This hardly seems possible, yet the evidence is baffling...