Conserving USS Monitor's Skeg Assembly ✨ 🏗️

Conserving USS Monitor’s Skeg Assembly ✨ 🏗️
For the past 10 years, our Conservation team here at The Mariners' has been working to conserve the skeg assembly of USS Monitor! This winter, the two-ton, 28-foot-long assembly became the largest assembly of USS Monitor to complete its treatment to date and is now right side up for the first time since the ship was launched on January 30, 1862.

Explore the "why" and the "how" behind the amazing ground-breaking conservation techniques that our team has adapted and developed to treat these massive objects.

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00:00 - 00:33 - Archival footage of the recovery of the Skeg Assembly
00:34 - 01:19 - Introduction of The Mariners' Museum and Park's Archaeological conservators
01:20 - 02:28 - Recovery of the skeg assembly
02:29 - 03:15 - What is a skeg?
03:16 - 05:26 - Early conservation and unique challenges
05:27 - 06:28 - What are these objects made of?
06:29 - 08:21 - Research and treatment of the skeg assembly
08:22 - 12:53 - Adapting and Implementing Dry Ice Blasting Technology in archaeological metals conservation
12:54 - 14:44 - How dry ice blasting works
14:45 - 17:32 - Why we conserve
17:33 - 20:00 - Discoveries through conservation
20:00 - 24:23 - Battle of Hampton Roads Commemoration Day and the legacy of Monitor
24:23: 25:26 - Support conservation at The Mariners'
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