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USS ''Merrimack'', was a ship launched by an Association of Newburyport Shipwrights and presented to the Navy in 1798. She was the first ship of the Navy to be named for the Merrimack River. She saw action in the Quasi-War. ==Service history== Captain Moses Brown commanded ''Merrimack'' when she was placed in service in December 1798. She departed Boston on 3 January 1799 for the Windward Islands to protect American merchantmen in the Caribbean during the naval war with France. She arrived Prince Rupert Bay on the 20th, and, for the next two years, cruised in the West Indies and escorted convoys to the United States. On 28 June 1799, she took her first prize ''L'Magicienne'', the former American naval schooner , captured on 20 November 1798 and taken into the French Navy. She took French letter-of-marque schooner ''Bonaparte'' 7 August and, with and , recaptured American schooner ''John'' on the 15th, after that ship had struck her colors to French privateer ''Revelleiu'' the day before. ''Merrimack'' freed American brig ''Ceres'', 6 June 1800, after it had been taken by ''L'Hazard'' on 18 May 1800. On arriving off Curaçao, 22 September, she found that a French force of 16 ships from Guadeloupe was besieging the city with 1,400 men. That evening, with , ''Merrimack'' stood into the harbor through heavy fire from French cannon and muskets. The American gunners replied with great spirit driving the enemy troops from their guns, but from time to time, during the night, the French soldiers renewed the cannonade. The next morning, the French troops reembarked in confusion and fled. ''Merrimack'' captured French privateer sloop ''Phoenix'' on 20 October 1800, and later in the year took French brig ''Brilliant.'' A list of American prizes credits ''Merrimack'' with recapturing English schooner ''Godfrey'', but gives no details about the action. She was stripped of naval equipment and sold in 1801. Subsequently, while operating in merchant service under the name ''Monticello'', the ship was lost off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Merrimack (1798)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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