USS Merrimack (1798)

History
United States
Name	USS Merrimack
Builder	Association of Newburyport Shipwrights, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Launched	12 October 1798
Commissioned	December 1798
Decommissioned	April 1801
Fate	Sold 1801
Notes	Subsequently lost as merchant ship Monticello
General characteristics
Tonnage	460
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	220 officers and enlisted
Armament	20 × 9-pounder guns 8 × 6-pounder guns

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.