Talk:Sundial cannon

A fact from Sundial cannon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 January 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that sundial cannons (example pictured) were triggered by the sun to fire at noon?

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Shipboard

Anyone suggesting that the familiar naval noon gun could have ever been a sundial gun mounted aboard ship has never even fully imagined being aboard a sailing ship.Wetman (talk) 00:57, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Did it fire actual cannonballs?

The article doesn't say. Kaldari (talk) 02:02, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]