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Merrimac

Collier: Built as the merchant ship SS Solveig at New Castle, England, in 1894. Purchased by the Navy, 12 April 1898 from T. Hogan & Sons, New York, NY. Renamed Merrimac, (date unknown); Merrimac supplyed coal to US warships operating off Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Final disposition, on 3 June 1898, in a daring attempt to bottle up Admiral Cervera's Spanish cruiser squadron, Merrimac was scuttled inside the entrance of Santiago Harbor.

Specifications: Displacement 3,362 t., Coal capacity, 4,976 t.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	66k	Merrimac at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., 23 April 1898. US Navy photo # NH 809, US Naval Historical Center Photograph		US Naval Historical Center
	59k	Merrimac at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., 23 April 1898. US Navy photo # 19-N-19-18-4 from the Bureau of Ships collection now in the collections of the US National Archives.		US Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS History currently available for Merrimac at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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