EMPIRE SHIPS OF THE LINE: .50 CALIBER DANGEROUS GAME RIFLES

Given the special nature of the .50 caliber dangerous game rifle, each is named after a famous warship, typically ship-of-the-line class (First, Second, and Third Rate ships, plus modern Battleships and Cruisers). 

The maiden rifle is a .500 Jeffery "HMS Dreadnought", of which the crest reads: "Fear God, and Dread Nought".

The name of each rifle is inscribed below the wood, but can also be engraved in plain view.

Medium bore dangerous game rifles may on request be named after cruisers and frigates.

Examples of names given to date include HMS Dreadnought; HMS Repulse; USS Merrimack; USS Alaska; DKM Prinz Eugen and SMS Seydlitz.

Please call Empire Rifles, 603.469.3152 for details.

The following list of Battleships was compiled by R. Hamilton. Names already in use on an Empire Rifle are indicated by an asterisk.

 

 

UNITED STATES NAVY

For details on a given ship of the United States Navy, please visit Wikipedia

 

WWII:

Alabama

Arizona (sunk 12/7/41)

Arkansas

Colorado

Idaho

Indiana

Iowa

Maryland

Massachusetts

Missouri

Nevada

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Texas

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

 

WWI:

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Kansas

Louisiana

Michigan 1910, scrapped 1924

Minnesota

New Hampshire

North Dakota

South Carolina

Utah

Vermont

 

BRITISH ROYAL NAVY

For details on a given ship of the Royal Navy, please visit Wikipedia

 

WWI:

Agincourt

Ajax (scrapped 1927)

Audacious

Australia

Barham

Bellerophon

Benbow

Canada (Chilean Almirante Latorre, on ways at start of war, taken over by Royal Navy, returned to Chile post war)

Centurion (used as breakwater at Normandy)

Collingwood

Colossus

Conqueror

Corageous

Dreadnought*

Emperior of India

Erin

Furious (half battle cruiser, half aircraft carrier, finally converted to complete carrier. Orig armament 2 18in guns in 2 turrets)

Glorious

Hercules

Indefatigable

Indomitable

Inflexible

Invincible

Iron Duke

King George V

Lion

Malaya

Marlborough

Monarch (ex King George V)

Neptune

New Zealand

Orion

Princess Royal

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Mary

Ramillies

Renown

Repulse*

Resolution

Revenge

Royal Oak (sunk 10/14/39 Scapa Flow)

Royal Sovereign

St. Vincent

Superb

Temeraire

Thunderer

Tiger

Valliant

Vanguard (sunk 7/9/17 at Scapa flow)

Warsprite

 

WWII:

Anson (ex Jellicoe)

Duke of York

Hood

Howe (ex Beatty)

King George V

Nelson

Prince of Wales (ex Anson)

Rodney

Vanguard (built 1941 to 1946 scrapped 1960)

 

Coming soon: ships of the German Navy.