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USS Merrimack (AO-179) was the third ship of the Cimarron-class of fleet oilers of the United States Navy. Merrimack was built at the Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana starting in 1978 and was commissioned in 1981 for service in the Atlantic Fleet. Total cost for the ship was $107.1 million.
USS Conecuh (AO/AOR-110) The first ship to carry the AOR-designation was USS Conecuh , which was acquired as a war prize in 1946. She was the former German tanker Dithmarschen , and she served in the US Navy from 1953 through 1956, where she was used to test the concept of the AOE/AOR.
USS Merrimack, or variant spelling USS Merrimac, may be any one of several ships commissioned in the United States Navy and named after the Merrimack River. USS Merrimack (1798), a ship placed in service in 1798 and sold into mercantile service in 1801, renamed Monticello as a merchant ship and later sunk off Cape Cod; USS Argus (1803), a brig ...
The Cimarron class was a class of five replenishment oilers which served in the United States Navy between 1981 and 1999. These ships were sized to provide two complete refuelings of a fossil-fueled aircraft carrier and six to eight accompanying destroyers.
This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with M. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.
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Deaths Image 1865 United States: Sultana – On 27 April this Mississippi riverboat, steaming north with an excessive number of passengers on board, suffered a series of boiler explosions. At least 1547 of her 2,137 passengers died in the ensuing fire or from drowning, though the death toll is assumed to be as high as 1,800.