To: yarddog
The thing which surprises me is that a ship of that era had well over a thousand sailors on it. Yeah, I question that also. That sound really high unless they were transporting soldiers. It does not take that many men to sail a ship and if it did, they would be all over each other.
To: Random Access
Ship of the Line. It took that many men to man the guns and yes, they were all over each other.
11 posted on
02/01/2009 4:58:10 PM PST by
sphinx
To: Random Access
It does not take that many men to sail a ship and if it did, they would be all over each other. Which is why they had cabin boys.
12 posted on
02/01/2009 5:03:35 PM PST by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Jimmy Carter -- the first white Barack Obama.)
To: Random Access
100 guns, 6 man crew each.
That alone gets you to 600 men and boys(powder monkeys).
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