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Three ships of the [[United States Navy]] have borne the name '''USS ''Merrimack''''': |
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Three ships of the [[United States Navy]] have borne the name '''USS ''Merrimack''''', named in honor of the [[Merrimack River]], a river formed by the junction of [[Pemigewasset River|Pemigewasset]] and [[Winnipesaukee River]]s at [[Franklin, New Hampshire]]. The Merrimack flows south across [[New Hampshire]], and then eastward across northeastern [[Massachusetts]] before emptying in the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] at [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]]. Also, two other US Navy ships have borne the name [[USS Merrimac|''Merrimac'']], a variant spelling of Merrimack. |
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* [[USS Merrimack (1798)]] |
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* The first [[USS Merrimack (1798)|''Merrimack'']], was a ship launched by an Association of Newburyport Shipwrights and presented to the Navy in [[1798]]. She was stripped of naval equipment and sold in [[1801]]. Subsequently, while operating in merchant service under the name ''Monticello'', the ship was lost off [[Cape Cod]], Mass. |
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* [[USS Merrimack (1855)]] |
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* [[USS Merrimack (AO-37)]] |
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* The second [[USS Merrimack (1855)|''Merrimack'']], was a screw [[frigate]], commissioned in [[1856]] and decommissioned in [[1860]]. In [[1861]] she was burnt in an attempt to avoid capture during the [[American Civil War]], but her hull and engines were used as the basis for the first [[CSS Virginia|CSS ''Virginia'']] |
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* The third [[USS Merrimack (AO-37)|''Merrimack'']], (AO-37), a fleet oiler, was acquired by the Navy in [[1941]]; renamed and commissioned in [[1942]]. She served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during [[World War II]], and was finally struck from the Navy list in [[1959]]. |
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Revision as of 14:34, 4 December 2005
Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Merrimack: