Timeline for Were sailing ships of the line understaffed with gunnery crews so that there were not enough for 2 broadsides?
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| Jun 4, 2014 at 23:37 | comment | added | Oldcat | It doesn't take much time for the gunners to swap sides. If preloaded, they can fire one side then the other very rapidly in the cases where you are sailing through a line of ships. | |
| Dec 7, 2012 at 15:01 | comment | added | DVK | Why would there be so many guns if the ship was designed to not have enough gunners? | |
| May 18, 2012 at 17:24 | comment | added | quant_dev | The Marines could be quite busy during the action: shooting at the sailors and officers on the enemy's deck or manning the enemy's sails, or making sure nobody deserts from their post. | |
| May 18, 2012 at 16:20 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Presumably Marines at the time were trained to operate the cannon, no? Seems like a waste to have them sitting there twiddling their thumbs waiting for a possible boarding action. | |
| Dec 12, 2011 at 17:29 | vote | accept | DVK | ||
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| Nov 25, 2011 at 7:57 | history | answered | quant_dev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |