A ship is your vessel for moving commodities, going pillaging and holding other events.

A scaled down image showing all the ships' main decks. From left to right: sloop, cutter, dhow, baghlah, merchant brig, war brig, merchant galleon, war frigate, and grand frigate.

Construction

There are nine different kinds of ships made at shipyards, each requiring different amounts of various commodities, labor, and doubloons (doubloon oceans only)

Ship Name	Wood	Iron	Sail cloth	Tan cloth	Lacquer	Basic	Skilled	Expert	Doubloons
Sloop	66 units	50 units	75 units	N/A	N/A	160 hours	60 hours	N/A	20
Cutter	150 units	100 units	150 units	N/A	N/A	250 hours	100 hours	N/A	30
Dhow	150 units	125 units	150 units	25 units	5 units	200 hours	125 hours	50 hours	35
longship	350 units	250 units	175 units	75 units	N/A	250 hours	150 hours	50 hours	40
Baghlah	350 units	150 units	200 units	50 units	10 units	300 hours	175 hours	50 hours	40
Merchant brig	400 units	125 units	200 units	N/A	N/A	400 hours	150 hours	50 hours	40
War brig	450 units	150 units	200 units	N/A	N/A	400 hours	200 hours	90 hours	50
Merchant galleon	600 units	225 units	325 units	N/A	N/A	650 hours	375 hours	125 hours	60
War frigate	650 units	250 units	400 units	N/A	N/A	700 hours	450 hours	175 hours	70
Grand frigate	1,200 units	500 units	600 units	N/A	N/A	1,200 hours	850 hours	350 hours	100

Capacity

Each ship class has a different capacity of total pirates, duty stations and commodities it can carry.

Ship Name	Pirates	Sails	Carp	Bilge	Guns	Gun Size	Shots	Volume	Mass
Sloop	7	3	2	2	1	small	4	20,250	13,500
Cutter	12	5	3	2	2	small	8	60,750	40,500
Dhow	12	5	3	2	1	medium	4	20,250	13,500
Baghlah	18	6	4	4	3	medium	12	27,000	18,000
Merchant brig	20	6	9	6	2	medium	8	135,000	90,000
War brig	30	9	6	4	4	medium	16	81,000	54,000
Merchant galleon	30	9	14	14	3	large	12	405,000	270,000
War frigate	75	18	18	12	6	large	24	324,000	216,000
Grand frigate	159	30	24	16	6	large	24	810,000	540,000

A Comparison of Ship Volumes

Damage

Each ship class can handle a different amount of damage in battle. Maxing for swordfight damage (this is a historical name which predates the Rumble puzzle) will cause the occupants to have the maximum amount of black blocks in the Swordfight puzzle or lock out a large portion of the Rumble board during the melee stage of the battle. If the ships are at war, or in a sinking blockade, reaching full damage will cause a ship to sink.

Ship Name	Max SF/Rumble Damage			Full Damage
Ship Name	Small	Med	Large	Small	Med	Large
Sloop	6	4	3	10	6.667	5
Cutter	7.5	5	3.75	12	8	6
Dhow	7.5	5	3.75	12	8	6
Fanchuan	7.875	5.225	3.9375	13.125	8.75	6.5625
Longship	9	6	4.5	15	10	7.5
Baghlah	12	8	6	20	13.333	10
Merchant brig	12	8	6	20	13.333	10
Junk	15	10	7.5	25	16.66	12.5
War brig	15	10	7.5	25	16.667	12.5
Merchant galleon	18	12	9	30	20	15
Xebec	21	14	10.5	35	23.333	17.5
War galleon	15	10	7.5	25	16.667	12.5
War frigate	30	20	15	50	33.333	25
Grand frigate	36	24	18	60	40	30

Ram Damage

When one ship (in sea battle) attempts to move into the square that another ship is occupying, the other ship is rammed and both ships suffer damage. If a ship hits a rock, it takes a small amount of damage. The edges of the board also act as rocks, except for the far edge (opposite the safe zone) of a flotilla, blockade or the entrance zone of an Atlantis board, which acts like a series of wind pieces facing inward.

There are four size classes of ship, as indicated in the Ram damage table below. If the ramming ship is in a larger size class than the ship being rammed, the smaller ship is usually "pushed" out of the square it was in, although collision mechanics can often be more complicated than this.

When a ship hits another ship, it inflicts damage upon the other ship based on its size. For example, if a sloop rams a merchant brig, the sloop receives the equivalent of 0.667 medium cannon balls worth of damage, and the merchant brig receives the equivalent of 0.5 small cannonballs worth of damage.

Ram damage

Ship Name	Damage dealt by this ship (Equivalent hits by shot size)			Size class
Ship Name	Small	Medium	Large	Size class
Sloop	0.5	0.333	0.25	Small
Cutter	0.5	0.333	0.25	Small
Dhow	0.5	0.333	0.25	Small
Fanchuan	0.5	0.333	0.25	Small
Longship	0.5	0.333	0.25	Medium
Baghlah	1	0.667	0.5	Medium
Merchant brig	1	0.667	0.5	Medium
Junk	1.5	1	0.75	Medium
War brig	2	1.333	1	Medium
Merchant galleon	2.5	1.667	1.25	Large
Xebec	2.5	1.667	1.25	Large
War galleon ^(verify)				Large
War frigate	3	2	1.5	Large
Grand frigate	4	2.667	2	Grand

Note that, if two ships are facing each other and both move, the results will be different depending on the size classes of the ships. If the ships are in the same size class, they will move into each other simultaneously, and deal a single collision's worth of damage to each ship. However, if they are in different size classes, two collisions worth of damage are dealt to each ship. A way to explain this is that the larger class sizes move "before" smaller class sizes within a single phase of ship movement. For further details, and more complex collisions, and those involving winds and whirlpools, see the article on Collision mechanics.

When a ship hits the edge of the map or rocks, it takes the amount of damage shown in the table below. For example, if a grand frigate hits rocks it receives the equivalent of 1.5 large cannonballs worth of damage. The numbers correspond to exactly 3 swordfighting ("SF") blocks worth of damage to the ship, or one twelfth full SF damage.

Rock damage

Ship Name	Equivalent no. of hits by shot size
Ship Name	Small	Medium	Large
Sloop	0.5	0.333	0.25
Cutter	0.625	0.417	0.3125
Dhow	0.625	0.417	0.3125
Fanchuan	0.65625	0.4375	0.328125
Longship	0.75	0.5	0.375
Baghlah	1	0.667	0.5
Merchant brig	1	0.667	0.5
Junk	1.25	0.833	0.625
War brig	1.25	0.833	0.625
Merchant galleon	1.5	1	0.75
Xebec	1.75	1.167	0.875
War galleon ^(verify)	1.25	0.833	0.625
War frigate	2.5	1.667	1.25
Grand frigate	3	2	1.5