USS ''Merak'' may refer to the following ships of the
United States Navy
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* USS ''Merak'' (1910), was built in 1910 at
Rotterdam
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, the Netherlands and operated by an Austrian-controlled company. The vessel was seized and turned over to the US Navy in 1918 and was sunk, with no casualties, in the western Atlantic 6 August 1918 by gunfire from the German
U-boat
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* , was a cargo ship acquired by the US Navy on 20 March 1942 and decommissioned 21 June 1946
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United States Navy ship names