.476 Enfield
Introduced 1881
Also known as .476 Enfield Mark III, .455/476 Revolver — the same cartridge under different names, all of which find this page.
Dimensions and pressure
Generated from the schema, like every specification table on this site, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table.
Identity
- Designed by
- not recorded
- Introduced
- 1881
- Production
- not recorded
- Standards body
- No standards body
- Case type
- Rimmed
- Case shape
- Straight
Dimensions
- Bullet diameter
- 11.56 mm0.4551 inestimated
Wikipedia's infobox figure (.455 in), citing the book Barnes & Amber 1972 (Frank C. Barnes' Cartridges of the World), which cannot carry a `verified` status without a clickable source. No free C.I.P. or SAAMI standard exists for this obsolete British service cartridge.
- Bore diameter
- not recorded
- Case length
- 22.1 mm0.8701 inestimated
Wikipedia's infobox figure (0.87 in), citing the book Barnes & Amber 1972, which cannot carry a `verified` status without a clickable source.
- Overall length
- 33.8 mm1.331 inestimated
Wikipedia's infobox figure (1.33 in), citing the book Barnes & Amber 1972, which cannot carry a `verified` status without a clickable source.
- Rim diameter
- 13.46 mm0.5299 inestimated
Wikipedia's infobox figure (.530 in), citing the book Barnes & Amber 1972, which cannot carry a `verified` status without a clickable source.
- Neck diameter
- 12.04 mm0.4740 inestimated
Wikipedia's infobox figure (.474 in), citing the book Barnes & Amber 1972, which cannot carry a `verified` status without a clickable source.
- Base diameter
- 12.14 mm0.4780 inestimated
Wikipedia's infobox figure (.478 in), citing the book Barnes & Amber 1972, which cannot carry a `verified` status without a clickable source.
Pressure
- Maximum pressure
- not recorded
- Pressure standard
- not recorded
SAAMI and C.I.P. measure pressure differently and their figures are not interchangeable, which is why the body is always named beside the figure.
Loads
No load data recorded yet. Without a sourced bullet mass and velocity there is nothing honest to compute, so the ballistic figures on pages that chamber this cartridge stay blank rather than being estimated into existence.
Chambered in
Computed from every entry that lists this cartridge. Nothing here is hand-maintained.
No entry on the site is chambered in it yet.
Gallery
Image credit
- Title
- File:.455 Enfield MkII and .476 Enfield MkIII Revolver Cartridges.jpg
- Author
- Drake00(attribution required)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:.455_Enfield_MkII_and_.476_Enfield_MkIII_Revolver_Cartridges.jpg
Detail
The .476 Enfield, formally the .476 Enfield Mark III, was the British Army’s standard revolver cartridge from 1881 to 1891, chambered in the Enfield Mk II break-top revolver and named for the service that adopted it rather than for a manufacturer. It fires a large, heavy lead bullet at modest velocity from a short, straight-walled rimmed case, in keeping with the era’s preference for bullet mass and diameter over speed in a service handgun.
It was superseded from 1891 by the .455 Webley, later standardised as .455 Enfield, a cartridge close enough in bullet diameter that the two are sometimes confused; despite the similar name, the .476 Enfield’s slightly larger rim and base diameters mean the two rounds are not directly interchangeable in a revolver chambered for one or the other. Colonial military forces and Canada’s North-West Mounted Police carried the .476 Enfield alongside the British Army during its period of issue.
No free dimensional standard exists for this cartridge — it predates the modern C.I.P. and SAAMI
bodies entirely — so every dimension in this entry is recorded as estimated from Wikipedia’s own
infobox, which cites a 1972 print reference book rather than a source that can carry a verified
status. No load with a bullet mass, velocity or energy figure is recorded on Wikipedia at all, so
none appears in this entry.
References
- .476 Enfield · 1350638861 · read 2026-09-02
Last verified 2026-09-02 · review status: agent-populated