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The Colt Model 1861 Navy cap & ball.36-caliber revolver was a six-shot, single-action percussion weapon produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1861 until 1873. It incorporated the "creeping" or ratchet loading lever and round barrel of the .44-caliber Army Model of 1860 but had a barrel one half inch shorter, at 7.5 inches.
A. Uberti S.p.A., is an Italian manufacturer of high quality replicas of 19th century American percussion revolvers, carbines, and rifles as well as cartridge revolvers, single-shot rifles, and lever-action rifles.
HNLMS Adolf van Nassau (1861) Adriatic (ship, 1861) French corvette Alecton; USS Alert (1861) Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky; USS Antelope (1861) Antelope (shipwreck) USS Aroostook (1861) SS Arratoon Apcar; USS Atlanta (1861)
Savage 1861 Navy (USA – rifle – 1861) Salvator-Dormus M1893 (Austria-Hungary – heavy machine gun – 8×50mmR) Salvator Dormus pistol (Austria-Hungary – pistol –1891/1895) San Yan Chong (China – hand cannon – 16th century) Slocum revolver (US – revolver – 1863/1865) Schmidt M1882 (Switzerland – revolver)
She was the first Navy ship named for the city of Denver, the capital of Colorado. Denver was launched on 21 June 1902 by Neafie and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia, sponsored by Miss R. W. Wright, daughter of Robert R. Wright, the mayor of Denver; and commissioned on 17 May 1904, with Commander Joseph Ballard Murdock in ...
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Denver, after the city of Denver, Colorado. USS Denver (CL-16) was a cruiser commissioned in 1904 and in service until 1931. USS Denver (CL-58) was a light cruiser commissioned 1942 and on active service in World War II , and decommissioned in 1947.
It was seized for service with the United States Navy during the American Civil War. In U.S. Navy service from 1861 to 1865, and under outright U.S. Navy ownership from 1863 to 1865, she was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat, as a tender, and as a hospital ship. She was decommissioned, put into merchant use, and lost off Cuba in 1871.
Colt Open Top, later model with larger Colt 1860 Army grip Colt's Patent inscriptions.44 Henry Flat Cartridge. The Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top is a metallic cartridge rear-loading.44-caliber revolver introduced in 1872 by the Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company.