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:''See also: Zavala, Mozambique and Zavala, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The '''Zavala''' was a Texas Navy ship after the Texas Revolution.
The official Texas Navy launched in January 1836, with the purchase of four schooners: ''Invincible'', ''Brutus'', ''Independence'', and ''Liberty''. They helped win independence by preventing a Mexican blockade of the Texas coast, seizing Mexican ships carrying reinforcements and supplies to its army, and sending their cargoes to the Texas volunteer army.
By the middle of 1837, all of the ships had been lost at sea, run aground, captured, or sold. The ''Zavala'' got its start in 1836 as a ship named the ''Charleston''. In 1838 the Republic of Texas started to rebuild its fleet and purchased the ''Charleston'' for $120,000 and renamed it ''Zavala'' in honor of Don Lorenzo de Zavala, the first Vice President of the Republic of Texas.
Zavala was laid up in Galveston harbor after a single cruise as a warship, where she deteriorated and was eventually scuttled to prevent her sinking. Zavala then sank into the mud of the harbor, and was eventually filled over.[1]
Clive Cussler, founder of NUMA, claimed to have located the hull of the Zavala beneath a parking lot in the former Bean's Wharf area of the harbor in 1986.[2]
1. Texas Naval Ship Zavala
2. Search for Zavala and Brutus
★ The Texas Navy, , , U.S. Navy Department. Naval History Division., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968,
The '''Zavala''' was a Texas Navy ship after the Texas Revolution.
The official Texas Navy launched in January 1836, with the purchase of four schooners: ''Invincible'', ''Brutus'', ''Independence'', and ''Liberty''. They helped win independence by preventing a Mexican blockade of the Texas coast, seizing Mexican ships carrying reinforcements and supplies to its army, and sending their cargoes to the Texas volunteer army.
By the middle of 1837, all of the ships had been lost at sea, run aground, captured, or sold. The ''Zavala'' got its start in 1836 as a ship named the ''Charleston''. In 1838 the Republic of Texas started to rebuild its fleet and purchased the ''Charleston'' for $120,000 and renamed it ''Zavala'' in honor of Don Lorenzo de Zavala, the first Vice President of the Republic of Texas.
Zavala was laid up in Galveston harbor after a single cruise as a warship, where she deteriorated and was eventually scuttled to prevent her sinking. Zavala then sank into the mud of the harbor, and was eventually filled over.[1]
Clive Cussler, founder of NUMA, claimed to have located the hull of the Zavala beneath a parking lot in the former Bean's Wharf area of the harbor in 1986.[2]
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References
1. Texas Naval Ship Zavala
2. Search for Zavala and Brutus
★ The Texas Navy, , , U.S. Navy Department. Naval History Division., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968,
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