USS Merrimac (1894)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Merrimack.
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.
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Merrimac being fitted out at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA, 23 April 1898 | |
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Namesake | 1877 Merrimack River |
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Builder | CS Swan & Hunter, Wallsend |
Yard number | 194 |
Launched | 29 September 1894 |
Completed | November 1894 |
Acquired | by US Government, 12 April 1898 |
Commissioned | into US Navy, 11 April 1898 |
Fate | Sunk by Spanish Navy, 2 June 1898 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 3,380 GRT, 2,193 NRT |
Length | 330.0 ft (100.6 m) |
Beam | 44.0 ft (13.4 m) |
Depth | 18.8 ft (5.7 m) |
Decks | 1 |
Installed power | 289 NHP |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21 km/h) |
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In 1898 Merrimac was commissioned into the United States Navy as a collier for the Spanish–American War. In June 1898 Spanish Navy ships sank her when she tried to trap them in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Merrimac is the only US ship that the Spanish Navy sank in that war.