Let me introduce our first guest. He is the director americas of the u. S. Monitor center in newport news, and im sure many of you have been there, if you have not, you need to go, its an amazing collection of material that they have there. Hes the author of 17 books, to that would be interesting to all of you is the csis virginia, sink before surrender, and the monitor voice, the core of the union first. He has received many awards, including the National Trust for president award for Historic Preservation and many others. His top today is the ship that save the nation, please welcome mr. Quarstein. Thank you. On march 8, 1862, there was a terrible day for the union. It turned the tide in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships. The cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray, people were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing this super weapon, as they would call
Off north carolina. This was part of a seminar the. Without further ado, let me introduce our first speake he has received many awards including the National Trust for Historic Preservations president s award for Historic Preservation and many, many others. His talk today is the ship that saved the nation, the monitors recovery and conservation. Please welcome mr. Quarstein. [ applause ] thank you. Well, you know, on march 8th, 1862 it was a terrible day for the union. In fact, it turned the tide, it appeared in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships, the cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray. People were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing that this super weapon, as they would have called the merrimack, as southerners called the virginia, would be there soon and the war would finally end in a confederate victory. But all was to change as if magic, because
threatening to bring some showers or longer spells around. this is the picture for friday at the details will change but you have this idea there is more cloud around and we have the potential for some heavy showers to break out particularly into the afternoon. a bit of rain in the far south west by the end of the doubt with some freshening breezes. temperatures won t be as high on friday. the last of the higher temperatures will be towards east anglia with 25 celsius here posed into the weekend instead of the high pressure that has brought all this one it will be low pressure sitting close to the uk and around it there weather fronts swirling around and some sunshine and showers. the weekend will not be a wash out. there will be someone spells of sunshine but there will be some showers. some of them heavy and most of the showers will be in the west. back to you, george. thanks, darren. and that s bbc news at six on wednesday the 22nd ofjune. you can keep up with all the late