Asiatic Annie

Asiatic Annie: A nickname for a Turkish heavy gun at the Dardanelles. We saw the great flash blotted out by the night and heard the warning 'G' on a bugle sounded, and a full of foreboding, we began to count the twenty-seven seconds which 'Annie' gives one to think about one's sins before she drops her shell. – Letters from the east, by Ivan Heald, published in the Daily Express.