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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Columbia, Maryland
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Most warships carry enough crew to account for deaths due to combat and disease. If you need a rough rule of thumb for minimum crew numbers during the Age of Sail, I'd say you could go with 1 per ten tons for fore-and-aft rigged vessels, and 1.5 to 2 per ten tons for square riggers.
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