Today, the McHenry County Civil War Round Table will be hearing a presentation from Dave Noe on the USS Merrimack, the ship that became the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia.
Here are some facts about the USS Merrimack:
From Wikipedia.
The USS Merrimack is also sometimes called the USS Merramac and was a steam frigate (powered by a screw propreller). One of six ordered in 1854. The others were the Wabash, Roanoke, Niagara, Minnesota and Colorado. (The Minnesota, Colorado and Wabash were at Fort Fisher.) The Roanoke became an ironclad herself featuring three turrets. The Niagara spent most of the Civil War in Europe.
The Merrimack was named after a river that starts in New Hampshire and flows to Merrimac, Massachusetts, on the Atlantic Ocean which causes the confusion in spelling.
It was launched by the Boston Navy Yard 15 June 1855. Commander was Captain Garrett J. Pendergrast.
--Old B-Runner
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