The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Evening Gun

Naval

The gun fired at tattoo (9 p. m.)

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2026 Editor's Note: The evening gun still fires: naval stations and garrisons worldwide mark sunset with a gun today — Halifax, Gibraltar, Edinburgh's one o'clock cousin — ceremony surviving exactly as this entry describes. (Ed: BR 2026-06-18)

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