Thinking up a few more ships
HMS Shannon
Faction: England
Rarity: UC
Type: Ship
Points Value: 14
Number of Masts: 4
Cargo Space: 4
Base Move: S+S
Cannons: 3S, 2L, 2L, 3S
Ability: Schooner. Once per turn, one of this ship’s cannons may shoot again if it misses.
USS Norfolk
Faction: America
Rarity: C
Type: Ship
Points Value: 10
Number of Masts: 3
Cargo Space: 3
Base Move: S+L
Cannons: 3S, 3S, 3L
Ability: Schooner.
HMS Java
Faction: England
Rarity: C
Type: Ship
Points Value: 10
Number of Masts: 3
Cargo Space: 3
Base Move: L
Cannons: 3S, 3L, 3S
Ability: This ship cannot be sunk, but she can be scuttled.
USS Chesapeake
Faction: America
Rarity: C
Type: Ship
Points Value: 10
Number of Masts: 3
Cargo Space: 4
Base Move: L
Cannons: 2S, 3L, 2S
Ability: Schooner. English Ships get +1 to their cannon rolls against this ship.
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Of the four ships here, Norfolk is the only fictional one- she’s based off the historical USS Essex, which raided British whaling vessels in the Pacific until her capture by HMS Phoebe in action off Valparaiso, Chile. Norfolk, in the Aubrey Maturin series, has a less glamorous end when she’s wrecked in a storm off the Galapagos Islands (she was replaced by the Acheron in the movie), so since no real test of her crew’s skill or armament was made I tried to make her stats fairly average (though a bit faster than most, compare the Boston from RV.
Chesapeake here is meant to bring her in line with the historical USS Chesapeake (though the RV one is quite good). Unfortunately, Historical Chesapeake had an unfortunate career of being bullied by the British, first being bombarded by HMS Leopard in the Chesapeake-Leopard incident that almost sparked the War of 1812 early and then being captured by HMS Shannon in an attempted sortie. Shannon here is probably a bit upsized (she and Chesapeake were about evenly matched in terms of firepower and displacement), but I’ve already done a lot of British 3-masters so I decided to diversify with a 4-Mast schooner. I gave her the Cannoneer to signify her skilled and well trained gunners, which certainly didn’t help Chesapeake during their encounter.
On the subject of 3 mast British ships, we have HMS Java, another victim of USS Constitution during the War of 1812. She gave good account for herself despite being outgunned and most of her crew being inexperienced greenhorns- one incident (recounted in the sixth book of the Aubrey-Maturin series, with the two bearing witness as passengers) sees Constitution dead to rights with a stern rake but Java’s crew forgot to reload the cannons on that side. Ultimately Java was defeated and scuttled by the Americans, though it took some time to assess the full extent of her damage before the call was made.