The museum’s Ashley and Barbara Ford Maritime Gallery features over 60 scale models of ocean liners from throughout history, many over 2 feet long. The models were fashioned by the Langfords of ...

Peter Siebert, president and CEO of Independence Seaport Museum, stands among the model ships on display in the exhibit, ''Small but Mighty!: Models, Toys, and Miniature Ships.'' (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) ...

“The Monitor story really is a Hampton Roads story,” said Will Hoffman of the Mariners’ Museum ... While the ship didn’t have a long life, it left an impact that’s still being ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and ... where the ship sank in a storm Dec ...

The tank housing the historic USS Monitor's gun turret was drained for the first time in years while undergoing conservation ...