USS Monitor's Untreated Sconce

3D Model

USS Monitor sank on December 31, 1862. This sconce is one of two sconces recovered from the shipwreck site in 2001. The object is still untreated, as can be seen by the ocean incrustation covering its surface. This sconce, and others like it, would have lined the officer’s cabins, holding whale oil lamps to light the space.

Courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum and Park.