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Rob,

I just happened upon a similar document for the HMS Pallas Frigate!

http://www.academia.edu/1397649/HMS_Pallas_historical_reconstruction_of_an_18th-century_Royal_Navy_frigate

Glad to post it! It makes me think we should rate merchant ships as starting out with only 2 crew actions. There guns might be loaded before the fight but they would have a tough time reloading,...

I found this great thesis on Eighteenth-Century Colonial American Merchant Ship Construction very interesting indeed though I have only read a small portion yet!
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