Enfield no1 MK3 canadian navy?

[tristanium]

Hello,i'm trying to find infos and a bit of history about this 1915 no1 mk3 with canadian markings.any ideas how many rifles were attributed to navy? Thank you

 

[Evanguy]

To help your search that rifle is a no1 mk3*
A no3 rifle is a p14.

The long lees i have that were in the navy are stamped on the butt socket with an N

 

[tristanium]

I should have been more specific,thank you.

 

[grabbers]

Would a Canadian Navy rifle, pre unification, not be stamped with RCN vice CN ?

Is there any history of CN having LEs ?

 

[JP]

I have a P07 bayonet marked CN in my personal collection.

 

[55recce]

I just checked my No 1 Mk III Line Throwing rifle. It is marked the same as yours with C Cbroadarrow N. So there is no doubt in my mind that this is Canadian Navy. I have never been able to find any info on Navy use of Lee Enfields but they are rare. A friend dumpster dives at CFB Esquimalt and retrieved 4 or 5 Bayonet Training Rifles which had been tragically tossed away. These are very rare and I have never seen one for sale. The conclusion is that the Navy must have had some use of Enfields for use on vessels for boarding parties and also presumably for dockyard defence.

BTW I also read somewhere that the last SMLE to be used on a Royal Navy ship was in the Falklands War (1982), supposedly for detonating mines. No idea if this is true or not.

https://www.joesalter.ca/products/lee-enfield-canadian-navy-marked-rifle
https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/navy/galery-e.aspx@section=2-E-2-c&id=22&page=0.html

 

[tristanium]

Good infos there thank you!

 

[wannabe]

The Royal Canadian Navy used No5 "jungle carbines" for years as the found the FN C1A1 too long and unwieldy for boarding party operations....I assume they have replaced them when everyone went to 5.56mm rifles