Swamped by high waves while under tow by the USS Rhode Island, the USS Monitor sank on December 31, 1862 off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 16 of the 62 crewmen were lost in the storm.Let’s get these sailors moved on and into their final resting place.
R.I.P. shipmates.
I was watching some show the other night and they were excavating ruins somewhere in the Middle East. And I wondered to my wife “How old does a grave have to be before you can rob it?”
Swamped by high waves while under tow by the USS Rhode Island, the USS Monitor sank on December 31, 1862 off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 16 of the 62 crewmen were lost in the storm.