Given the premise, is the hypothesis maintaining a neutral stance? Premise: When one of these women gave birth to a child without knowing which sailor had fathered it, the paternity was logged as  gun,  perhaps alluding to the midship gun, which was often located near the makeshift maternity room. Hypothesis: The woman gave birth with no known father, so it was recorded as gun. 
When one of these women gave birth to a child without knowing which sailor had fathered it, the paternity was logged as  gun,  perhaps alluding to the midship gun, which was often located near the makeshift maternity room.###The woman gave birth with no known father, so it was recorded as gun. 