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ardilla -> RE: Advanced Naval Rules (9/1/2004 5:04:01 PM)
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There are many reasons why GB was better at sea than SP or FR.
In the spanish side, the main reason was the bad crew, mostly people from jail, the bad shipbuilding political, very big ships wiht lot of gun power but slow and usually a very bad "finger" assignament of commanders.
But, I have to say that spanish ships were not bad as Nelson said (his first flagship was a captured spanish one!)
French, well, the main problem, as far as I read, was that they spend many years blocked by the brits and this makes a big deal.
GB had better shot rate and guns, good admirals and a logical ranking for them and support from the goverment.
There is a "funny" thing about the spanish nav, the money to spend was less than the one assigned to the royal court!!!!
About the fate of the big sea battles, well, RNavy won the most important ones of the era, but THEY ALSO LOST other ones, small ones, 3 on 3, 1 on 1, battles, but of course, what we can do if the history is written by the winners....
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