In the Second Book of Shmuel (Samuel), 22nd chapter, 5th through the 19th verses, translated from the original in Hebrew and published by the Koren Publishers of Jerusalem, Israel, can perhaps aptly describe the fate of the crew and all other U.S.sailors who died defending their county:
"When the waves of death compassed me / the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; / the bonds of She'ol encircled me; / the snares of death took me by surprise; / in my distress I called upon the Lord, / and cried to my G-D: / and he heard my voice out of his temple, / and my cry entered into his ears. / Then the earth shook and trembled; /the foundations of heaven moved / and shook because of his anger /...the heavy mass of waters, and thick clouds of the skies /... And the channels of the sea appeared, / the foundations of the world were laid bare, / at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast at the breath of his nostrils. / He sent from above, he took me; / he drew me out of many waters; / he delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too strong for me. / They surprised me in the day of my calamity: / but the Lord was my stay..."
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504k | Northrop Grumman Newport News employees will build the Monitor replica in 22 steel sections inside the shipyard's steel production facility. Pictured on Feb 21, 2005, is the first section, called the keel unit, which weighs approximately 18 tons and is about the size of a rail car. | Photo # 189-1426, by Chris Oxley, courtesy of Northrop Grumman. | |
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607k | Northrop Grumman Newport News employee Josh Cantrell welds the keel section of the Monitor replica in preparation for a Mar. 6 keel laying ceremony. | Photo # 189-1427, by Chris Oxley, courtesy of Northrop Grumman. | |
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377k | (From left) The Mariners' Museum President and CEO John Hightower and famed author Clive Cussler lean in to watch as Nancy Petters, the ship's sponsor and wife of Northrop Grumman Newport News President Mike Petters, christens the Monitor replica with a bottle of American sparkling wine. | Photo # 061206C, by John Whalen, courtesy of Northrop Grumman. | |
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504k | During the christening ceremony, 40 apprentices from the sector's apprentice school manned the ship. Apprentices built the replica in 22 steel sections using data provided by engineers from the CVN-21 aircraft carrier program. | Photo # 061206E, by John Whalen, courtesy of Northrop Grumman. | |
USS MONITOR History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
Monitor National Marine Santuary, NOAA.
CambrianFoundation.org USS Monitor, The Sinking.
Tour the Wreck of the Monitor.
Full scale replica of the Monitor.
Northrop Grumman Employees Reconstruct History with USS Monitor Replica.
Pre-Dreadnought Preservation, The U.S.S. Monitor by Mark Howells
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