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Singer (naval mine)
The Singer was a naval mine made and deployed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It was a manually laid moored contact mine.
==Development==
During the American Civil War, Matthew Fontaine Maury, a Confederate government official established the Torpedo Bureau and the Torpedo Corps in Richmond, Virginia to oversee the development and deployment of new types of naval mines.〔Hartmann, Gregory K.''Weapons That Wait: Mine Warfare in the United States''. Naval Institute Press, 1979. pg33〕 Maury was convinced that the only way to defend the coastlines against Union assaults was through the widespread use of naval mines. Mines were inexpensive and easily produced on a large scale. The low cost and large volume of mines produced would supplement the small naval forces of the Confederacy and make it possible to defend against the superior fleet of the Union navy.〔Hartmann, Gregory K.''Weapons That Wait: Mine Warfare in the United States'' Naval Institute Press, 1979. pg33〕 The efforts of the Torpedo Bureau and the Torpedo Corps proved to be worth the investment of the Confederacy. For the relative low cost of the mines they did a tremendous amount of damage to the Union forces, sinking a total of 27 Union naval vessels.〔Duncan, Robert C. Ph.D. ''America's Use of Sea Mines''. United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1962. pg29.〕
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