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ZavalaThe Zavala was a Texas Navy ship. 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 volunteers. 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).
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