NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Was there a black cat aboard the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, placed inside a cannon by a superstitious but desperate sailor as the vessel was sinking?
Conservators had hoped to verify the legend as they worked this month to extract concretelike sediment from two cast iron, smooth-bore cannons salvaged from the ship’s turret.
No black cat in search of Civil War cannon
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