The Pilot’s Book · Questions and answers
Why does the surgeon offer to raise deckhands?
The surgeon raises exactly who fell in the last 24 hours — by kind, at the price of their kind.
Port → «Army» → «Surgeon»: «Fallen: N» counts everyone lost in the last day. 
The list is by kind: if deckhands fell, it offers deckhands — those men, not «any 12 sailors». Their price is a share of their kind's cost. 
The fallen wait a day and up to 20 battles. Missing men of any kind are simply hired — in the tavern or the hire window.
