What is "naval gun"

Usage examples of "naval gun".

Thereupon she herself ran over to the field kitchen in her high-heeled shoes, and reached the steaming hot coffee exactly at the same time as a shell from a naval gun.

We made five more passes, and on the sixth we defined a small naval gun lying beside the wreck.

She's taken fire from 23-mm cannons and heavy machine guns, as well as several direct hits from a 100-mm Naval gun.

Latterly deflated like a target-practice balloon taking a direct hit from a five-inch fifty-four Naval gun.

Sandecker set the sawed-off base of an eight-inch shell casing form a naval gun in front of him as an ashtray and lit up a cigar.

With my steel-taut nerves in the state they were in, a six-inch naval gun going off in my ear would have sounded muffled by contrast.

Then with a deadly accurate combination of five-inch naval gun and tank fire, the slow, systematic decimation of the Coastal Kommando began.

The big gun, Nicolson knew, couldn't depress far enough to reach the boat, but he had vague memories of stories told him by naval officers of the almost decapitating effects of a naval gun fired just above one's head.

Without a real live insurance policy beside me they'd use anything from a hand grenade to a 14-inch naval gun to stop me.