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Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!
      24/09/15 08:49 AM

Hi Roy
Many thanks for your response, if I was not tired last night I would have remembered to ask if it had English Proof Marks which a Commercial rifle would have

The arming of "Armed Trawlers" is interesting, they would use .303s
There are many on a trawler wreck just off here in Plymouth

I am also interested in the arming of merchant ships in WW1, with older guns from 3 pounders to 4.7 inch
As I diver I have dived on many WW1 wrecks in the English Channel and recovered (legally!) shell cases and small arms ammo.
Most was .303 but often other, 6.5 X 54 Mannlicher and unusually, 44/40 Winchester

Early in WW1 many American shooters gave pistols and rifles to the British War Effort (thanks guys, we were short as usual)
Some of these were given to the IIRC Home Defence Force? predecessors of the WW2 Home Guard
But I believe some were issued to these armed ships as it would save the.303s for more regular units
Ammunition could be sourced from Eley etc.

Anyway, I digress and ramble on...............

Good shooting

Tony

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* B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy 21/09/15 04:05 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Iowa_303s   21/09/15 07:43 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   21/09/15 07:57 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Iowa_303s   21/09/15 11:41 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Viking338   21/09/15 04:09 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   22/09/15 01:15 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Iowa_303s   22/09/15 02:10 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   23/09/15 05:18 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! TH44   23/09/15 08:26 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   23/09/15 08:59 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   23/09/15 09:00 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! TH44   24/09/15 08:49 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   24/09/15 11:37 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   25/09/15 05:47 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! AlanD   15/11/15 02:49 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   16/11/15 02:54 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Sarg   16/11/15 06:28 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   16/11/15 07:22 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Bidgee   16/11/15 08:55 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   16/11/15 11:15 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Bidgee   16/11/15 04:23 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Old_Glass   16/11/15 11:36 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Bidgee   16/11/15 12:05 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   16/11/15 12:14 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Rule303   16/11/15 06:39 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   17/11/15 02:11 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   17/11/15 02:35 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Sarg   17/11/15 06:08 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   17/11/15 06:16 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Roy   28/11/15 06:01 AM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! DarylS   16/11/15 12:20 PM
. * * Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..! Iowa_303s   23/09/15 08:44 AM

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