twenty-one-gunner

Updated: August 2, 2026

Boom! sounded sharply overhead. "There goes the twenty-one-gunner," announced Darrin. When a foreign battleship enters a fortified port the visiting fleet, or rather, its flagship, fires a national salute of twenty-one guns. After a short interval following the discharge of the last gun, one of the forts on shore answers with twenty-one guns.

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