Crate of Lee Enfield's drug up off the coast of Nova Scotia!!!!!

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Just saw this posted from last night. Appears to be a crate of Lee Enfield's. Found while fish dragging off the coast of Nova Scotia. Must have been a ship wreck. Honestly I don't really know milsurps all that well so might be something else. Would make an awesome piece for a gun room!


 
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Those actually look like 1853 Enfield or Snider stocks. And no barrels or locks are visible.
 
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They look to be 1853 pattern (approx) enfield rifles. The barrels and lock, c/w butt plate screws look to be completly rusted away. Just the stocks there. Cool find.
 
I agree - 1853 pattern Enfields. All ironwork, including bp screws, has rusted away. Breech area of stocks does not appear to have been opened up for Snider action, so I doubt they are Sniders.

Given the location of the find, it is possible they are somehow connected to the US civil war. Possibly jettisoned cargo prior to boarding, shipwreck or naval action.
 
B_noser said:
I agree - 1853 pattern Enfields. All ironwork, including bp screws, has rusted away. Breech area of stocks does not appear to have been opened up for Snider action, so I doubt they are Sniders.

Given the location of the find, it is possible they are somehow connected to the US civil war. Possibly jettisoned cargo prior to boarding, shipwreck or naval action.
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Cool! The guy that posted the pic said from World War II. I thought that wasn't right but I'm not up on the milsurps
 
Just went back and checked the thread. The original poster hadn't said anything just posted a pic. He has since commented that he found them 7-8 years ago. He stated he drug them up in the old ammo dump off of Cape Breton. Whatever that means. He states they are now on display at the Halifax Maritime Museum. I think it's really called the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
So old news. But still cool if you haven't heard about it
 
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Be interesting to stumble on one of those ships, the U boots sank. :)

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Most of the locations are known, and have already been salvaged.

Can't remember the name of the outfit, but there was a company that did cargo salvage of WWII vessels on an industrial scale all through the 50's and 60's, and into the early 70's. It was a commercial and incredibly non-sentimental affair.

They'd send salvage divers down, rig up explosives, and blow off the sides of the hulls and collapse the entire ship, spilling the contents onto the sea floor. Then drop a massive clam-shell scoop onto the wreck, and haul up the spoils by the ton. It was all funded by the insurance companies that had underwritten the cargoes - they were trying to recoup as much of their losses as economically feasible.

If someone can remember the name of the company that was the single big player, it would be interesting. There was a whole documentary about the operation made back in the 90's (IIRC, might have been the 80's) about the operation.
 
Possibly cargo from a sunken blockade runner from War of Northern Aggression 1861-65. Halifax was a major port for blockade runners.
Curious that only some are missing the brass butt plates and the stocks are not eaten by teredo worms.
 
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