Remington Navy Carbine Model 1867

Why would a Navy need firearms? They are out on the high sea, they are not going to become pirates or boarding ships anytime soon. However, ships still need to dock for repairs and revive larger qualities of supplies. They need to be guarded by sailors with rifles against any trespassers or sabotairs. In addition, there is still a possibility that they can be still boarded by enemies at sea. Today, all sailors in the U.S. Navy are still trained to operate postals, and firearms are found on all ships sailing in the U.S. Navy. If you can recall from the Remington Model 1871 Argentine page (if you have not read the page, it will be the rifle in the next cabinet and the last one on the bottom rack) the U.S. Navy Ordnance Department became interested in the Remington rolling block action rifles, and purchased several different models of rifles to test. However the rifles they ended up choosing were defective and technically unusable. This was one of the rifles the navy was considering to produce. It is important to note that this Carbine on display might not be a full on Remington Navy Carbine Model 1867, but bears remarkable close similarities to the Model 1867, suggesting this Carbine might have been altered.

About 5,095 Carbines of this model were manufactured between 1868 to 1869 entirely by Remingtron. The carbine would have fired a 50-45 caliber bullet, with a 23 1/4 inch round barrel, the stock could have been constructed from American Black Walnut or potential maple, oak, and birch. This carbine has the Remington Rolling-Block action (where the sealing of the breech is done with a specially shaped breechblock able to rotate on a pin) found in most other Remington Rifles during this era. It appears the carbine has a brass trigger case, and some sort of ring attached to it, potentially an attachment point for a sling. This carbine had an effective range of 900 meters (3,000 feet).