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An unusual knife...

jack of all · 2014-02-16 14:57:05

I found this knife among some jumble some years ago but never knew its purpose. Apparently it is a WWII era US Navy floating survival knife (at least according to Google). I couldn't find much info on it. Has anyone here seen anything like it before?

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16-02-2014 3:57pm

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jack of all

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I found this knife among some jumble some years ago but never knew its purpose. Apparently it is a WWII era US Navy floating survival knife (at least according to Google). I couldn't find much info on it. Has anyone here seen anything like it before?

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#2 16-02-2014 4:30pm
madmaxi

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More info here: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/wwii-usn-navy-life-raft-floating-survival-knife

You might get more info in the military forum:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=659

Or in the Militaria forum: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1003

Interesting object.

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#3 16-02-2014 7:02pm
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The whole point (or lack) of the knife is that if you drop it in a rubber life raft you aren't going to easily puncture one of the buoyancy tanks.

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#4 16-02-2014 8:14pm
jack of all

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Yeah, read that point, very interesting! It's funny how I regarded this as a completely useless object until I knew it's actual purpose, once I knew that I could appreciate how a great concept was so well executed, pretty much like any quality specialised tool really, I suppose.

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