Ships & the Shipyard

Before her timber and her rolls. Hull is what sinks her; sails are her canvas, a second bar that slows her as it is shot away. Speed is cells a second at Full Ahead, turn is degrees a second with the helm hard over. A Shipyard holds up to 6 ships.

Ship	Guns	Hull	Sails	Speed	Turn	Hold	Crew	Upgrades
Small Boat	2	320	200	5.2	110°	60	1	1
Medium Boat	4	540	338	4.9	92°	120	1	2
Large Boat	6	820	513	4.6	74°	200	2	2
Brigantine	8	1,180	738	4.4	60°	320	2	3
Galleon	10	1,650	1,031	4.1	47°	480	3	3
Britannian Man-o'-War	12	2,300	1,438	3.8	37°	700	5	4
Fishing Trawler	none	900	563	4.4	62°	900	2	2

Built at the Carpentry crafting window, or the Carpentry tab of your house's Crafting Bench, behind a progress bar. The price is in plain Wood Planks and Iron Ingots — the rarer the timber you build her in, the fewer of them she takes (next table).

One Material choice picks both: a hull of each timber is fitted in the metal of the same rung. The timber adds hull; the fittings turn a share of every hit aside. Carpentry needed is the hull's own or the timber's, whichever is higher.

Small fittings found in wrecks' strongboxes — rare, and likelier from the harder ships. Fitted at the Shipyard for Silver, as many as she has upgrade slots and never two of a kind. They are items: carried, traded and sold.

Upgrade	What it does
Tarred Seams	+3% hull
Copper Sheathing	+2% speed
Greased Rudder Pins	+3% turn rate
Extra Bulkhead	+5% hold space
Iron Gun Carriages	+2% cannon damage
Brass Rammers	3% faster reload
Gunner's Quadrant	+3% cannon range
Crow's Nest	+10% sighting range
Steady Gun Ports	10% tighter shot spread
Iron-Shod Prow	+20% ramming damage dealt
Cork Fenders	20% less ramming damage taken
Grappling Hooks	+25% reach hauling strongboxes aboard
Salvager's Winch	+15% shot salvaged from wrecks
Treasure Hound's Chart	+15% chance of Special Loot in a wreck's strongbox
Silversmith's Scales	+5% Silver from wrecks
Shipwright's Pitch Pot	+25% repair speed at the dock
Studding Sails	10% quicker to gather way
Iron Strakes	+1% of every hit turned aside
Keel Doubling	25% less damage running aground
Lucky Figurehead	+10% chance of crew and upgrades from wrecks

Paid from the Shipyard's coffer. Taking a ship out puts her in your pack as an item — crew, guns and upgrades aboard — which is how a ship is traded. Salvage raises her off the seabed after a sinking; shipping the hold home is for a ship that docked at a town.

A Tinkering tool, 5 ingots of one metal (at least 20 Tinkering, or the metal's own floor), and it can go in a Tool Bag. Active and raised on the helm card, it marks far-off ships and captains on the chart — a ship's own lookouts see 90 cells. It spends a charge every 30 seconds it is up, and Tracking adds up to 25% range at Grandmaster.

Spyglass	Range (cells)	Charges	Lasts
Iron Spyglass	150	60	30m
Dull Copper Spyglass	175	80	40m
Shadow Iron Spyglass	200	100	50m
Copper Spyglass	225	120	1h
Bronze Spyglass	250	150	1h 15m
Golden Spyglass	280	180	1h 30m
Agapite Spyglass	310	220	1h 50m
Verite Spyglass	350	260	2h 10m
Valorite Spyglass	400	320	2h 40m
Blackrock Spyglass	450	380	3h 10m

Bought once with BritCoin and worn on every ship you own, from the Looks tab of the Shipyard. None of them changes a single number she sails by — and nothing animates but the cloth of her sails in the wind.