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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''''':
-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.
+* [[USS Merrimack (1798)]]
-* 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.
+* [[USS Merrimack (1855)]]
+* [[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'']]
-* 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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