Ross Rifle use 1946 and onwards

[Patton12]

I guess one possible post 1945 use of the Ross Rifle was the ones that were in service on the Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre. It appears that ship was used till the mid 1950s and then sold for scrap in 1959. I believe the Chilean Ross Rifles started to show up after then.

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[Melanie_Daniels]

The German Dealer who sold the Chilean rifles bought 30 of them from their Government in 1969.

[Patton12]

I was wondering when they were sold out of Chilean service. I would guess then that they must have sat in storage for awhile since the Almirante Latorre was sold for scrap in 1959.

[green]

The Chilean Ross rifles appeared on the surplus market in the 1970s at the same time as the Chile Mausers.

[Sapper740]

According to "The Ross Rifle Story" pre, 'tween, and post the wars the list of countries that ended up with Ross Rifles is long and glorious: China, Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Spain, New Zealand, Holland, Norway, Finland, Indonesia, India, Chile, United States, Britain, and of course, Canada where the Ross served as a security weapon in penitentiaries and with the Canadian Park Warden's Service until the Sixties.. That doesn't include the 200 odd Ross Rifles that ended up being dumped in Cromarty Firth by the police and the one used to shoot an elephant gone berserk in Fort Worth, Texas on July 12, 1940.