NAVAL GUN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Naval gun

... hills his dead lay piled in hundreds, and the slope of the hill was a charnel-house where the wounded all writhed amidst the masses of the dead; a ghastly tribute to British gunnery. For hours I stood within speaking distance of the great naval gun as it spoke to the enemy, and such a sight as their shooting the world has possibly never witnessed. Not a shell was wasted; cool as if on the decks of a pleasure yacht our tars moved through the fight, obeying orders with smiling alacrity. Whenever the signal ...

— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front • A. G. Hales