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USS Merrimack, also improperly Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia then took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads (also known as "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack ") in the first engagement between ironclad ...
USS Merrimac, sometimes incorrectly spelt Merrimack, was a cargo steamship that was built in 1894 in England as Solveig for Norwegian owners, and renamed Merrimac when a US shipowner acquired her in 1897. In 1898 Merrimac was commissioned into the United States Navy as a collier for the Spanish–American War.
However, late in July, yellow fever broke out among Merrimac's crew and she sailed north to allow her crew to recover. Upon arriving New York, she debarked her sick sailors at quarantine, and got underway for a cruise in the northwest Atlantic as far as St. John's, Newfoundland. Early in 1865 Merrimac was reassigned to the East Gulf Blockading ...
CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the razéed (cut down) original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.
Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of CSS Virginia from the remains of USS Merrimack and the battle between Virginia and USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862 – March 9, 1862.
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A 1991 made-for-television movie called Ironclads, produced by TNT, was made about the battle. The album The Monitor, the second studio album by New Jersey band Titus Andronicus, ends with a fourteen-minute track that references the battle. In Canyonlands National Park, Utah, there are two buttes named after Monitor and Merrimac. There is a ...
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