Civil War Torpedo Works Lavaca Bay, TX
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Texan E.G. Singer who was known as an inventor developed a unique spring-action torpedo and tested it in Lavaca Bay in 1863. His torpedo works site in Lavaca produced torpedoes and underwater mines. He later provided to the Confederacy these torpedoes and mines which were deployed in several rivers in the South and were part of the defense of nearby Matagorda Bay in Texas.
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1998
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Texas Historical Commission
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This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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state, “Civil War Torpedo Works Lavaca Bay, TX,” War Memorial HQ, accessed March 15, 2025, http://warmemorialhq.org/items/show/534.
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