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07-31-2013, 05:26 PM
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S@W navy with boat marks
I have traded for a navy victory that is about 95% . It is marked ,N.Y.M.I. 731. I think the # is a boat # . I think the boat,is the USS.Maddox dd731. If anyone has any ideas thanks in advance
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07-31-2013, 05:31 PM
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I am not an historian, but I served on USS Stormes DD-780 and we did not have any small arms with the ships number on them, so I would doubt the Maddox would either. I hope I`m wrong because it would be neat if it were so.
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07-31-2013, 05:35 PM
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Navy Yard Mare Island - with 731 as a rack number?
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07-31-2013, 07:27 PM
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I was on the USS Purdy, DD734. Only handguns we had were 1911's..
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07-31-2013, 07:43 PM
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Navy Yard Mare Island - with 731 as a rack number?
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This sounds logical. A letter might prove it and would be really cool historically.
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07-31-2013, 08:29 PM
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rack #
I never even thought about a rack #. would that mean it was a mare iland victory used on base. thanks again for info.
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07-31-2013, 08:34 PM
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Correct on the stamping ID. A factory letter 'may' document shipment to Mare Island, but not the stamping, which was almost certainly done after it became USN property.
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08-02-2013, 07:13 PM
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Hmmm. Let me guess. I am putting on my Carnac hat. Is the serial number V175896?
Murphydog is correct. It is a Mare Island gun. The NYMI markings are post-factory. It will letter as shipped to the Navy but not to Mare Island.
Hope that helps you.
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08-03-2013, 11:18 AM
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You're dating yourself with that reference, Charlie!
That is just spooky.
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Take a look at page 142 in Charlie Pate's book, "US Handguns of WW2" Pictured there is V176608, shipped 4/8/42, with the "N.Y.M.I. 582" stamping.All the Mare Island Victory Models I've seen had similar stamping with different rack number, of course. Mare Island was the largest and oldest Navy Yard on the West Coast. Carnac is not really psychic, he just has his spies everywhere watching sales and trade offerings! Ed.
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I believe that the U.S.S. Maddox was one of the destroyers along with the U.S.S. Turner Joy involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident
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08-03-2013, 05:28 PM
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"Take a look at page 142 in Charlie Pate's book, "US Handguns of WW2" Pictured there is V176608, shipped 4/8/42, with the "N.Y.M.I. 582" stamping"
I don't have the book, but 4/8/42 is far too early for that SN. pre-Victories were still shipping then. Maybe 4/8/43 (which seems late, but at least it's possible) or perhaps just the month is incorrect. I'd expect something close to the end of 1942 for that SN..
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