Royal Canadian Navy firearms?
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Um...WHEN?
What years, makes a difference! I've been told firsthand of the .38spl revolver, and FN C1 rifles, at totally different decades. In more recent years I know they've had Sig handguns and Mp-5's for boarding teams, but beyond that you'll have to wait for some Navy people...I was Army myself.
What years, makes a difference! I've been told firsthand of the .38spl revolver, and FN C1 rifles, at totally different decades. In more recent years I know they've had Sig handguns and Mp-5's for boarding teams, but beyond that you'll have to wait for some Navy people...I was Army myself.
RememberTheSomme
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They had the FNC1D, which was select fire and markd accordingly on the butt stock . This was unique from the Armies C1s C1A1s etc. 
They had the FNC1D, which was select fire and markd accordingly on the butt stock . This was unique from the Armies C1s C1A1s etc.
Some of these were in the hands of non combat arms reserve units in the early 90s just before SARP. 25 Med Coy comes to mind.
RememberTheSomme
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Don't know but if there RCN markings, it was before my time and probaly disappeared after unification in 68-69. I saw the C1D, SMG C1, High powers, I think they had Remington 870s, H&K MP5s, line shooting guns, can't quite rememeber what they were.
Any Bo'sun past or present, on these forums, should be able to tell you everything you want to know.
Any Bo'sun past or present, on these forums, should be able to tell you everything you want to know.
stencollector
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According to Clive Law's book on the Inglis Hipower, the Canadian Navy adopted the Hipower in 1949, so the Army sent them just about the last of the no1mk1 Hi-powers they had left over from a canceled Chinese foreign aid contract. Inventory in 1966 showed 2735 of the Chinese type Inglis in Navy inventory, compared to just 7 of the no2mk1 variety.
Of course, this win was negated on unification, and the Cdn forces supply system had to take all the CH pistols back and give the Navy proper T serialized pistols.
One of the WWII firearms in the Navy's arsenal would have been the Lanchester sub machine gun. I have a C/l\ marked Lanchester pouch in my collection, along with a dewat Lanchester.
Of course, this win was negated on unification, and the Cdn forces supply system had to take all the CH pistols back and give the Navy proper T serialized pistols.
One of the WWII firearms in the Navy's arsenal would have been the Lanchester sub machine gun. I have a C/l\ marked Lanchester pouch in my collection, along with a dewat Lanchester.
In the late 1950s I remember the bulkheads around the main deck in HMCS Unicorn in Saskatoon being lined with No4 Lee Enfields locked in racks with bolts removed. It seemed like there were hundreds of them at the time.
hahah I have heard a few stories about the confused medics and there full auto FN's
I was on our regimental rifle team and one winter weekend at Vimy range at Borden many years ago (on a planet far, far away
) we had cause to meet up with 25 Med. The first thing we noticed were the spanking new FNs. The second was a big "A" on the buttstocks.In exchange for letting them use some of our ammo and running a range for them they let us use the C1A1-Ds they had. Needless to say we weren't interested in running a normal application for ourselves. Mags and chargers in hand we loaded all our mags, went down to the 100 yd berm and let loose on FA. Totally uncontrollable! We had to cross sling the rifles with the left hand on top of the hand guard before we were able to print on a figure 11 at 25 yds. Needless to say there were a lot of hot, smoking handguards after a while and a few burnt gloves. Poor meds had to clean the rifles later.
Are we talking a Navy ship? In Saskatoon??
Did they ship it in by truck??
"Stone Boat" - a navy "armory". They get ship names.
I went through basic training in HMCS Cornwallis (another stone frigate) in 1967 and on small arms familiarization we fired the FNC1, the Inglis HP and the Sten. Of course I could not hit anything with the Sten but I was very impressed with the training Petty Officer. He threw a little piece of wood forward and then proceeded to make it dance. The PO was extremely impressed with one of my colleagues who had a stoppage with his Sten. This guy just turned towards the PO with the Sten pointing. He did not have time to finish his phrase!
Sten
My old pal Al who died in August was volunteered by the Captain of his Corvette HMCS Hespler in WWII to be the boarding party of submarines when they forced one to the surface. He said he was then trained with a Sten gun and what he called "a big old Tom Mix revolver."
My old pal Al who died in August was volunteered by the Captain of his Corvette HMCS Hespler in WWII to be the boarding party of submarines when they forced one to the surface. He said he was then trained with a Sten gun and what he called "a big old Tom Mix revolver."
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My wife was a Wren (Cornwallis) back in the early 60's and she told me that they very briefly were trained with a .22 that from her description sounded to me like a Cooey.
