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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The First Marine torpedoes were made in Richmond, Va., and used in James river. (search)
ary washtub in his chamber at the house of his cousin, Robert H. Maury, on Clay street, and the tank for actual use, with theace, by a lanyard. The Patrick Henry gig was borrowed; Captain Maury and the writer got aboard with the torpedo, and were roreau of coast harbor and river defense was created, and Captain Maury placed at its head with abundant funds for the work, an, where by the kindness of a friend, it was secured for Captain Maury's uses. With part of this he was enabled to mine James impact upon the sides of the vessel attacked; and with Captain Maury designed and constructed, at his own expense, a semisub Went abroad. By the fall of 1862 the importance of Captain Maury's work and its capabilities had become so highly apprecctrical torpedoes, which, he says, he himself put down, Captain Maury's having been washed out by a severe freshet after he h at first denouncing it as barbarous and heathenish. Captain Maury's experience and studies had now made him the chief aut