Answers: According to The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea:
"son of a gun, a description given by the lower deck to children born on board ships of the British Navy during the extent when the wives of seamen were allowed to live on the train in seaport and, occasionally, at sea. As the gangway had to be kept clear, the lone place on board where on earth women in employees could give birth be in the spaces between the guns on the gun-decks, so that, inevitably, any masculine child born on board be known as a ‘son of a gun’. Such a birth give rise to the saying: ‘Begotten contained by the galley and born under a gun. Every hackle a rope-yarn, every tooth a marline spike, every finger a fishhook, and his blood right good Stockholm asphalt.’"
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