Merrimack (Frigate)
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Variants
- Merrimac (Frigate)
- U.S.S. Merrimack
- USS Merrimack
Additional Information
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: History of the second Virginia Website, June 19, 2002(CSS Virginia, built as the frigate USS Merrimack, commissioned Feb. 1856; in Apr. 1861 retiring Union forces sank Merrimack to preclude capture; Confederates raised Merrimack and rebuilt her as an ironclad ram; commissioned Feb. 1862 as CSS Virginia; forced to evacuate Norfolk, the Confederates destroyed her on 11 May 1862)
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Change Notes
- 1980-09-03: new
- 2016-03-21: revised
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