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Private purchase naval weapons are maritime weapons used aboard ships that are otherwise classified as non-government issue. They were stocked on private vessels for either an offensive or defensive purpose that did not fall under any actual branch of the naval department. Thus, they do not bear standard government issue marks of their host country despite their use aboard said ships of that country.〔Gilkerson, William (1991)''Boarders Away'', p,22-24〕 ==Types== Like their naval counterparts, private issue sea service weapons had their common equivalents among the ships-of-the-line, meaning typical boarding weapons of the time period.〔O'Brian, Patrick (1974)''Men-of-War: Life In Nelson's Navy'', p.35〕 These consisted of boarding cutlasses, axes, pikes, hangers/swords, and naval dirks. Because they were private stock, they were typically made in smaller quantities that their naval protégés and thus had much leeway in their design. Some very closely resembled the government-issue styles, but many borrowed freely from other countries' patterns or mis-matched different styles. Some of the government contractors that made swords for the Navy department would turn around and produce a number of swords for these private quarters for financial purposes. Ships of these private firms far out-numbered the actual number of government naval vessels as a whole. Private purchase fire-arms were a whole other arena of sea weapons. As manufacture of pistols was much more complicated than just finding a local supplier to knock out a few swords, guns involved much more craftsmanship and care in their creation. As such, many private ship owners purchased bulk orders of guns that were either of a rival nation and thus readily available or pistols that were not typically identified as a naval issue weapon. For example, a British ship-owner might decide to purchase a supply of French firearms or even use Belgian-made cavalry pistols with lanyard rings as a close substitute for a maritime pistol.〔Gilkerson, William (1991), ''Boarders Away II:With fire- Small firearms and Combustibles'', p.248-255, 257-259〕
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