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    Mar 9, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  1. Monitor sailors laid to rest

    ARLINGTON — The U.S. Navy made good on a 150-year-old promise Friday when it buried two Civil War sailors lost in the sinking of the pioneering ironclad warship USS Monitor.
    ARLINGTON — The U.S. Navy made good on a 150-year-old promise Friday when it buried two Civil War sailors lost in the sinking of the pioneering ironclad warship USS Monitor. Laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery with the solemn pomp and...

    Tags: Human Interest, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    2. Mar 28, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  2. Hampton Roads fishing report for Thursday, March 28

    Correspondent
    Buckroe Fishing Pier (727-1486): The pier will hold its 2013 fishing season grand opening Monday, April 1. Thereafter, the pier will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except when there are severe weather warnings in effect. Kayak fishing (by...

    Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Fishing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Weather, Weather Warnings

    3. Mar 27, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Survivors of March 6 shipwreck were all but lost at sea

    It started as the kind of delivery Pat Schoenberger, an Annapolis sea captain, had made many times: Pick up a client's motor sailboat, ferry it to Florida and return home in a few weeks' time.
    It started as the kind of delivery Pat Schoenberger, an Annapolis sea captain, had made many times: Pick up a client's motor sailboat, ferry it to Florida and return home in a few weeks' time. A brilliant morning sky beckoned as Schoenberger and Jim...

    Tags: Outer Banks, Annapolis, Apple iPhone, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head

    4. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Civil War sailors laid to rest, 151 years later

    <b> </b>Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862.
    Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862. On Friday, the Annapolis woman joined the crew members'...

    Tags: Annapolis, Unions, Abraham Lincoln, USS Monitor, Arts and Culture

    5. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Coast Guard suspends search for two lost fishermen off Assateague

    The Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday for two men missing in waters about 15 miles off the coast of Assateague Island after their fishing boat sank a day earlier.
    The Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday for two men missing in waters about 15 miles off the coast of Assateague Island after their fishing boat sank a day earlier. The broken-down fishing vessel was battling 20-foot waves and 50 mph wind gusts...

    Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Annapolis, Sentara, Bodies of Water, National Weather Service

    6. Feb 28, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  6. VIMS studies ocean system

    GLOUCESTER — Just off the mid-Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras is a dynamic water system along the continental shelf where streams of cold ocean seas, warmer waters and broad rivers swirl together, influencing weather, climate, animal...

    Tags: Biology, Science and Technology, Applied Physics, Atlantic Ocean, Science

    7. Dec 28, 2012 |Story| Daily Press

  7. Ironclad mourned 150 years after its death

    When the USS Monitor left Hampton Roads on the afternoon of Dec. 29, 1862, the southwest wind was light, the skies clear and the seas smooth. Nobody imagined that just 36 hours later the famous ship hailed as the savior of the Union after its historic...

    Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), USS Monitor Center, Museums, Fort Monroe, Heavy Engineering

    8. Feb 14, 2013 |Story| Daily Pilot

  8. Lee Chapin Sammis

    Lee Chapin Sammis passed away February 12, 2013, in his home in Newport Beach, CA, where he lived and built his business for the past 50 years.&nbsp; He was born on February 15, 1931 in Los Angeles to MIT graduates Ford Woodruff and Constance Sharp Sammis.&nbsp; His family lived all over the country during the depression until settling in Pasadena, CA where he graduated in 1949 from South Pasadena High School.&nbsp; The experience of frequently being the new kid in class shaped his scrappy nature and he became an inveterate reader, mechanical tinkerer and collector extraordinaire of many things.&nbsp; Ambition and tenacity being innate, he was a teamster in San Pedro at age 14 for 65&cent; an hour, had his driver&rsquo;s license at the same age, trained with legendary boxer Canto Robletto to win a Golden Gloves title as a teen, played football with distinction at South Pasadena High and won intramural track meets in the 100 yard dash, all while faithfully keeping a full social calendar.&nbsp; He often hitchhiked down to the beach at Balboa in those years to sail the family Thistle, swing at the Rendezvous Ballroom and attend Bal Week festivities.&nbsp; He attended UCLA and UC Berkeley where he was an active member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity and Skull &amp; Keys, amongst others.&nbsp; Lee also worked as a hasher in the Kappa House at Cal to supplement his diet and &ldquo;foster fraternal relations.&rdquo;&nbsp; After college he enlisted in the Army, being discharged in 1957 a 1st Lieutenant stationed at Fort Ord.&nbsp; He married his beloved wife, Joan Howard of Pasadena, in 1955 and they settled in their hometown in 1957.&nbsp; He worked in Los Angeles for RA Rowan and in 1962, the family moved to Newport Beach, where he was a founding member of the Orange County office of Coldwell Banker on PCH in Corona del Mar.
    Lee Chapin Sammis passed away February 12, 2013, in his home in Newport Beach, CA, where he lived and built his business for the past 50 years.  He was born on February 15, 1931 in Los Angeles to MIT graduates Ford Woodruff and Constance Sharp Sammis. ...

    Tags: Banking, Auto Trends, Crime, Law and Justice, Music Industry, Jonathan Winters

    9. Feb 12, 2013 |Story| WDBJ7

  9. Two unknown Union sailors will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) --
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the remains of two unknown Union sailors recovered from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8. Mabus made the announcement Tuesday, saying they...

    Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, USS Monitor, Wars and Interventions

    10. Jan 21, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  10. Should worst-flooded areas be left after Sandy?

    SEA BRIGHT, N.J. (AP) &mdash; Superstorm Sandy, one of the nation's costliest natural disasters, is giving new urgency to an age-old debate about whether areas repeatedly damaged by storms should be rebuilt, or whether it might be cheaper in the long run to buy out vulnerable properties and let nature reclaim them.
    SEA BRIGHT, N.J. (AP) — Superstorm Sandy, one of the nation's costliest natural disasters, is giving new urgency to an age-old debate about whether areas repeatedly damaged by storms should be rebuilt, or whether it might be cheaper in the long...

    Tags: Natural Disasters, Bodies of Water, Floods, Staten Island (New York City), Super Bowl

    11. Dec 31, 2012 |Story| WDBJ7

  11. New monument honors crew of the USS Monitor

    150 years after the USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina, a new memorial in Virginia honors the crew of the civil war ironclad. And researchers are still working to identify the remains of two sailors who died when the ship went down.&nbsp;
    Reporter
    150 years after the USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina, a new memorial in Virginia honors the crew of the civil war ironclad. And researchers are still working to identify the remains of two sailors who died when the ship went down.  16...

    Tags: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), USS Monitor, Wars and Interventions

    12. Jan 14, 2013 |Story| Daily Press

  12. Ironclad mourned 150 years after its death

    When the <a href="#" data-topic-id="PLTRA0000164">USS Monitor</a> left <a href="#" data-topic-id="PLTRA0000001">Hampton Roads</a> on the afternoon of Dec. 29, 1862, the southwest wind was light, the skies clear and the seas smooth.
    When the USS Monitor left Hampton Roads on the afternoon of Dec. 29, 1862, the southwest wind was light, the skies clear and the seas smooth. Nobody imagined that just 36 hours later the famous ship hailed as the savior of the Union after its historic...

    Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), USS Monitor Center, Museums, Fort Monroe, Heavy Engineering

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