European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Or it a a far Lisic Model of the. Two How ref tag f first  a it i r that i our a of naval history. _ test the theory during the the Man who devised it Wei y the of in. Full of t i the off Cape in Yleras Etc that Man Dixon m?. Fui Mior in Psi first citizen of Cape Mallei As death in it. In who made the attempt. A and of new York. Hopes to i happen to believe in the i says. And i think the Monitor brought up Tutor Sank off Cape Hatteras in dec. 31, 1862 10 months after 1862date of its Only Battle the ate with the Confederate i Virginia records say the ship was lost of Yards off he Cape at the it was last seen. Macneil the last 23 of his 71 years on a oking the Lighthouse believed by Charles Stafford a staff writer the ship drifted Well inshore before sink a Brusly Man who boasted Ali it tie cml my  Ite i own is under my Iii Jer  main ill was sent Here on an Assi Tiirik it he the Raleigh no is and observer in . It he Staj de to write a Book. A the in out Light Effiom a study of the to of lilo , which in t Lii Nony of survivors and wind and lid 1 a ports Mur Neili  the slip Sank pm Yards nor Lett not of Hatteras House. He Clainie that on Deverril occasions when conditions were just right he saw it from an air plane says William Dillon a Hatteras Motel keeper. In june 1955, two Vouk skin divers who and talked with Macneill tried to locate the Hulk. They were to Ikon out in an out Hoard Skiff arid made some dives says Dillon but they did t find  Kaland led an expedition sponsored by Westinghouse broadcasting co. In septem Ber h 58. I talked at length with the old Man says Inland. He was quite an old world gentleman we used his charts. He would say now i Don t say this is the Monitor hut i have a theory that this is the Monitor. 1 worked out this theory and then tested it and there is a Hulk out there " Kaland who often mixes his Hobby civil War history with his profession radio to programming says the search lasted two weeks but for the entire time the Waters off the Cape were a dirty Brown. Is Ocean is fantastic says Dillon who lives close beside it. In rough seas the tide will unseat a wreck and move it. It has a Nasty in but of depositing a it famous Battle on Mardi 9, 1b62. The Union s Monitor is at right. He Battu was a draw. March 23, 1962 the stars and stripes treasures on the Shore and taking the Sabback with the next  had the Monitor gone Down anywhere else it might have been possible to a sounding equipment to locate the Hulk says it cmdr James f. Toner commander of the Navy facility at Cape Hatteras. But they Call these Shoal Waters the graveyard of the  there Are literally thousands of ship wrecks out  Toner says. The historic significance of the Monitor transcends its Only Battle. It was the first armoured fighting  Navy ordered it built in 1861 after learning that the Confederate Nav planned to raise the Merrimac which had been scuttled at Norfolk and covet it wit Harmor plate. The Monitor was launched the following january at Green Point. 11."the Yankee cheese Box on a raft was 172 feet Long. Its Flat Iron plated deck waa Only a couple of feet above the water. A round revolving Turret armed with two11-Inch guns stuck up amidships. After nearly foundering in rough sea the Monitor reached Norfolk of March 8, 1862. It found the newly Christ ened Virginia the old Merrimac mauling other Federal vessels. The next Day a son Day the two ironclads fought for four hours without seriously damaging each  the Confederate forces withdrew from Norfolk a Short time later the scuttled the Virginia. The federals ordered the Monitor to South Carolina for action  Little vessel left Norfolk on dec. 29, 1862, under Tow by the Rhode Island. While rounding Cape patterns Pivotal Point of the North Carolina coast it ran into a  sea. Rolled Over us As if our vessel were a Rock in the Ocean Only a few inches Abye the water helmsman fran Cis b. Butts said later. The vessel was Riding one huge wave plunging through the next As if shooting straight for the Bottom of the Ocean splashing Down upon another with such Force that her Hod would tremble while a fourth would leap upon us and break far above the tur ret rather than endanger the Rhode is land the Monitor s skipper cmdr . Bankhead ordered the Tow line Cut. Water poured into the Monitor around the gun Turret and through the Anchor Well drowning out the , Bankhead gave the order to abandon  boats lowered from the Rhode Island took off most of the  before they could return for the rest the Monitor disappeared. Sixteen men were  Short life of the first armoured ship had ended. But by then Britain and other maritime nations realizing their wooden ships would be easy prey for armoured ves Sels began rebuilding their  Era of the armoured ship had 11