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	USN Ships--USS Merrimack (1856-1861)
		USS Merrimack, a 4636-ton steam frigate, was built at the Boston Navy Yard.
		Merrimack was still there, receiving repairs to her troublesome machinery, when the state of Virginia seceeded from the Union in mid-April 1861.
		Halftone reproduction, copyrighted in 1906 by G.S. Richardson, depicting the USS Merrimack aflame during the burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard, 20 April 1861.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/merimak2.htm (731 words)

	USS Merrimack (1855) information - Search.com
		USS Merrimack was a screw frigate of the United States Navy, best known as the hulk upon which CSS Virginia was built during the American Civil War and then took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads (often called "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack").
		Merrimack was launched by the Boston Navy Yard 15 June 1855; sponsored by Miss Mary E. Simmons; and commissioned 20 February 1856, Captain Garrett J. Pendergrast in command.
		She was the second ship of the Navy to be named for the Merrimack River, which is formed by the junction of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee Rivers at Franklin, New Hampshire.
	www.search.com /reference/USS_Merrimack_(1855) (484 words)

	Jimmy the Cork : Amanda Corcoran2/28/05Period 3AP US Hist
		He was elected as a Whig in 1849, and reelected in 1855 as a Republican.
		The issue of legal tenders, the greatest financial blunder of the war, was made contrary to his wishes, although he did not, as he perhaps ought to have done, push his opposition to the point of resigning.
		Even so, her captain attacked the USS Minnesota, which had run aground on a sandbank trying to escape the Virginia.
	www.greatestjournal.com /users/bamf_girl143/36789.html (4417 words)

	United States Navy Shirts
		USS Constitution, launched in 1797 and the most famous of the six, was nicknamed "Old Ironsides," and, thanks to the efforts of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
		The screw frigate Merrimack had been so hastily scuttled that her hull and steam engine were basically intact, which gave the South's Stephen Mallory the idea of raising her and then armoring the upper sides with iron plate.
		The United States's first carrier, a converted collier named USS Langley was commissioned in 1922, and soon joined by Lexington and Saratoga, which had been planned to be battlecruisers until the treaty forbade it.
	www.coolmilitary.com /navyshirtspage.html (3317 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Union Navy burned the USS Merrimack during the evacuation of the Gosport Shipyard at Portsmouth, Virginia in 1861.
		The anchor of the Virginia sits on the lawn in front of the Museum of the Confederacy, established in Richmond in 1890.
		The USS Monitor Center is a popular attraction at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, where the artifacts have joined some of those from Virginia.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Battle_of_Hampton_Roads (3042 words)

	The Mariners' Museum - Monitor: History and Legacy
		The Merrimack, the first of the class launched, was built at the Boston Navy Yard and completed in 1855.
		Following her European tour, the Merrimack was dispatched to the Pacific, where she remained until 1860, when continuing engine problems forced her to be recalled to the Gosport Navy Yard for repairs.
		The Merrimack was still at Gosport in 1861 when the shipyard fell into the hands of the Confederacy in April.
	www.mariner.org /monitor/03_earlydev/merrimack.html (634 words)

	Santa Barbara County Courthouse Preservation Projects
		USS Congress, a 1,867-ton sailing frigate, was built between 1839 and 1842 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine.
		On 8 March 1862, while anchored off Newport News, Virginia, USS Congress was attacked by the ironclad CSS Virginia.
		After suffering heavy casualties in a one-sided action with a opponent that was virtually invulnerable to her guns, the veteran frigate was forced to surrender.
	www.santabarbaracourthouse.org /sbch/Histories/usscongress.htm (841 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		CSS Virginia was an ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War (built using the remains of the scuttled Merrimack">USS Merrimack).
		Merrimack's engines, now part of Virginia, had not been in good working order, and the salty Elizabeth River water did not help.
		Military Heritage did a feature on the Merrimack (CSS Virginia), USS Monitor, and the Battle at Hampton Roads (Keith Milton, Military Heritage, December 2001, Volume 3, No. 3, pp.38 to 45 and p.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=CSS_Virginia (1158 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/CSS Virginia
		CSS Virginia was an ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War (built using the remains of the scuttled USS Merrimack).
		She was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads in March, 1862 opposite the USS Monitor.
		Later that night, USS Monitor arrived at Union-held Fort Monroe, rushed to Hampton Roads in hopes of protecting the Union force and preventing Virginia from threatening Union cities.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/CSS_Virginia (1193 words)

	Jamestown History
		The first Jamestown was a sloop of war launched in 1844 by the Navy Yard, Gosport, VA. Leaving Hampton Roads on June 25, 1845, she was the flagship of Commodore Charles W Skinner.
		The USS Jamestown was powered by a second generation warp drive with a top speed of warp 5.
		After the war ended, the USS Jamestown continued to serve the fleet well until she was decommissioned on June 15, 2195.
	www.angelfire.com /va/ussjamestown/history.html (2950 words)

	William Harwar Parker Information
		He became a U.S. Navy midshipman in 1841, served in the South Atlantic and, during the Mexican-American War, was a participant in operations against Veracruz, Tuxpan and Tabasco.
		Parker graduated in the United States Naval Academy class of 1847 and was assigned to the sloop of war USS Yorktown in African waters.
		In the decade following that ship's loss in 1850, he performed coast survey duties, was an instructor at the Naval Academy, and had sea service aboard USS Cyane in the Caribbean area and in the steam frigates USS Minnesota and USS Merrimack in the Far East and the Pacific.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/William_Harwar_Parker (417 words)

	USS Monitor
		The Medal of Honor (an award of the United States for both combat and non-combat heroism) was given to Peter Williams, a seaman on the USS Monitor, for the battle on 9 March 1862.
		Born 1824, appointed midshipman in 1840, graduated from Annapolis in 1846, appointed a Lieutenant in 1855.
		On 3 April 1863, the Medal of Honor (an award of the United States for both combat and non-combat heroism) was given to Peter Williams, a seaman on the USS Monitor, for the battle on 9 March 1862.
	cssvirginia.org /vacsn3/crew/monitor/index.htm (830 words)

	USS Brooke (FFG 1)
		USS BROOKE was the US Navy's first guided missile frigate.
		John Mercer Brooke was born at Tampa Bay, Florida, on 18 December 1826, the son of an Army officer.
		He was deeply involved in the conversion of the burned steam frigate MERRIMACK into the ironclad CSS VIRGINIA and in the design and production of heavy rifled guns for the Southern war effort.
	navysite.de /ffg/FFG1.HTM (378 words)

	1862 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		March 8 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
		August 6 - American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with the USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
		December 31 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two); meanwhile, the Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1862 (1996 words)

	Q & A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A much more deadly threat was the naval mine ("torpedo" in the terms of the time); the USS Cairo, a sister of the Cincinnati, became the first warship in the world to be sunk by a mine on 12 December 1862.
		The USS Merrimack was a wooden steam frigate launched by the United States at Boston on 14 June 1855.
		Her hulk was raised by the Confederates on 30 May 1861, and she was placed in the drydock left intact (for reasons that are not entirely clear) by retreating Union forces.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~jenkins/ironclads/qanda.htm (2563 words)

	USS San Jacinto CG-56 - "Victory is Certain" First USS San Jacinto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first USS San Jacinto was an early screw frigate in the United States Navy during the mid 1800s.
		In the spring of 1855, San Jacinto was briefly attached to the Home Squadron and served in the West India Squadron as flagship for Commodore Charles S. McCauley to bolster American naval strength in the Caribbean after Spanish frigate, Ferrolana, had fired upon United States mail steamer, El Dorado, off the coast of Cuba.
		Recommissioned on 4 October 1855, the screw frigate, now commanded by Captain Henry H. Bell, departed New York on the 25th and headed for the Far East as flagship of Commodore James Armstrong.
	www.sanjacinto.navy.mil /first.htm (3203 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1855, an epidemic of yellow fever, which ravaged and decimated the population of Portsmouth and Norfolk, seriously arrested the yard's activities for a brief period.
		The same year, 1855, saw the inauguration of gas light in the Navy Yard, while the whole period, beginning with the construction of the first drydock to the year 1860, was marked in the yard by expansion, extensive improvements, and naval construction of varied types.
		A battleship of 43,200 tons, the USS NORTH CAROLINA (BB-52) was constructed at the yard, and although more than a third completed, this ship, more powerful than any then possessed by the fleet, was scrapped in 1923 as a result of the Washington Naval Limitation Treaty.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /History/ROOTS.HTM (4332 words)

	USS Cumberland (1842) at AllExperts
		The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy.
		From 1857 to 1859 she cruised on the coast of Africa as flagship of the African Squadron patrolling for the suppression of the slave trade, then became flagship of the Home Squadron in 1860.
		She served as one of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron until 8 March 1862 when she was rammed and sunk in an engagement with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) at Newport News, Virginia.
	en.allexperts.com /e/u/us/uss_cumberland_(1842).htm (361 words)

	Battle of Hampton Roads
		He would use the larger and more powerful Union Navy to cut the Confederacy off from the rest of the world by blockading the Confederacy's coastline on the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and controlling the Mississippi River Valley with gunboats.
		She opened the engagement when less than a mile distant from USS Cumberland and the firing became general from blockaders and shore batteries.
		The broad impact of the battle on naval thinking was summarized by Captain Levin M. Powell of USS Potomac writing later from Vera Cruz: "The news of the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimack has created the most profound sensation amongst the professional men in the allied fleet here.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads (3123 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003b Surface vessels (Pre 1880) > Ironclads > American vessels - ...
		However, two steamers, USS Miami and USS Southfield, lashed together with spars and chains, were approaching up-river, attempting to pass on either side of Albemarle and so trap her.
		Columbia was towed by USS Vanderbilt to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where she arrived May 25, 1865.
		Next she rammed USS Brooklyn, again firing her gun, and injuring her rather deeply, but not quite enough to be fatal.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/postcardlibrary/index.php?cat=951 (6804 words)

	MERRIMACK EMBARRASSING TO BUILDERS
		A greater irony was that in the beginning of the Merrimack's construction, she was supposed to have engines designed by John Ericsson.
		Actually, the Merrimack drew 23 feet, 9 inches - but those 9 inches prevented her from entering ``nine-tenths of the harbors of the nation's entire sea-coast.'' Her extended draft would have dire consequences for the heavier, iron-plated Virginia when it came time to evacuate Gosport shipyard in May 1862.
		Although in the beginning of her career, Merrimack's engine problems were not as critical as her rolling, Gosport engineers soon found critical problems within her propulsion system as well.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960308/03070212.htm (1025 words)

	Confederate Navy
		The second MERRIMACK was launched by the Boston Navy Yard 15 June 1855: sponsored by Miss Mary E. Simmons; and commissioned 20 February 1856, Capt. Garrett J. Pendergrast in command.
		There, in anticipation of a Federal drive past the forts, up the lower Mississippi and into New Orleans, she was to participate with the Confederate naval force, in conjunction with the River Defense Fleet and the forts, in defending the passage to the city.
		In the event the submarine needed additional buoyancy to rise in an emergency, the iron weights could be removed by unscrewing the heads of the bolts from inside the vessel.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /navy/CSSNavy.htm (4312 words)

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		The first Roanoke was launched on 13 December 1855 at Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned 4 May1857, Capt. John B. Montgomery in command.
		Assigned to the Home Squadron as flagship, Roanoke’s first duty was to return the American filibuster and former president of Nicaragua, William Walker, and 205 of his men to the United States.
		During the C.S.S. Virginia’s (the former USS Merrimack), attack on Union warships in Hampton Roads, 8 March 1862, Roanoke’s deep draft prevented her from engaging the Confederate casement ram and kept her out of action the next day when the Virginia engaged the Union turreted ironclad, Monitor.
	www.taubmansonline.com /TPSROANOAKE.htm (569 words)

	19th Century Merchant Marine Timeline
		USS Essex is defeated by British frigates at Valparaiso, Chile.
		The fame of Captain John Winslow and the USS Kearsarge are put to good use at the National Sailor's Fair in Boston in 1864.
		The USS Wampanoag sets an ocean speed record with a run of almost 18 knots; however, the United States Navy returns to small-scale force with ironclad monitors for coastal defense and a few wooden sail and steam powered vessels for distant stations.
	www.mysticseaport.org /library/exhibits/me-time.cfm (8118 words)

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