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When one of these women gave birth to a child without knowing which sailor had fathered it, the paternity was logged as “gun,” perhaps alluding to the midship gun, which was often located near the makeshift maternity room.
Son of a gun probably is not nautical, and “the midship gun” used in the explanation doesn't make sense.