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In view of the marine surface vehicles are subject to unknown time-varying external disturbance and its velocities are not available for feedback, a robust finite-time output feedback control scheme is presented for multiple marine surface vehicles to achieve precise formation control in this paper. Without neglecting the first time derivative of disturbance, a novel finite-time extended state observer (FTESO) is proposed to precisely estimate the external disturbance and velocity information in finite time. Based on the outputs of FTESO, the distributed formation controller is designed to guarantee that a group of marine surface vehicles can track the time-varying virtual leader in finite time with precise tracking performance. The errors of the proposed FTESO and formation controller can be guaranteed to converge to zero in finite time by using the homogeneous method and the Lyapunov theory. Numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed finite-time output feedback formation control scheme.