Explore: Merrimac (steamer)

frequently misspelled the name as "Merrimac", which was actually an unrelated ship, hence "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac". Both spellings are still

USS Merrimac, sometimes incorrectly spelt Merrimack, was a cargo steamship that was built in 1894 in England as Solveig for Norwegian owners, and renamed

during the American Civil War USS Merrimac (1864), a side-wheel steamer purchased in 1864 that foundered in 1865 USS Merrimac (1894), a collier purchased in

USS Merrimac was a sidewheel steamer first used in the Confederate States Navy that was captured and used in the United States Navy during the American

in a Boston newspaper the day after the battle read "The Merrimac Driven back by the Steamer!", implying a Union victory, while Confederate media focused

the Black Rocks in Salisbury Beach in one direction, and Newburyport and Merrimac, Massachusetts, in the other direction. On extreme high tides, she would

Lorimer; Greene, Dana S.; Ramsay, H. Ashton (1912). The Monitor and the Merrimac; both sides of the story, told by Lieut. J. L. Worden, U.S.N., Lieut. Greene

the harbor by sinking the collier USS Merrimac in the entrance channel. Spanish shore batteries disabled Merrimac, and she drifted up the channel toward

Brother Jonathan was a paddle steamer that struck an uncharted rock near Point St. George, off the coast of Crescent City, California, on July 30, 1865

Kingston upon Hull, England William Earle (USS Merrimac), Acting Master of the US Civil War steamer USS Merrimac when it sank on February 15, 1865 William