Vocabulary

• Ships of the Line: the main battleships.
• Frigates: smaller and faster ships for patrolling, scouting or conveying merchantmen.
• Broadside: firing all guns on one side of a ship simultaneously.
• Marines: soldiers on board ships
• Landsmen: men with no seafaring or riverboat experience
• Prize money: where captured ships are sold and the money is allotted to the men. The officers took lions share.
• Comptroller of the Navy: headed the Navy Board- responsible for building + maintaining ships.
• Forecastle: raised deck at the front of ships.
• Petty officers: seamen who aren't commissioned officers but had some authority.
• Nore: area at mouth of the River Thames.