Sloop
Starter raider. Fast, nimble, fragile.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side3
Hull900
Speed17
Crew8–28
Shallow Runner. Can cross reefs and shoals that tear the keel out of bigger ships.
Shipyard
Fleet
Ten ranks of ships — from a fishing ketch to a man-o’-war and premium hulls with companions of their own.
26 hulls
Fast ships
Cutter
Courier and interceptor.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side2
Hull720
Speed18.5
Crew6–20
Dispatch Runner. Courier contracts pay 20% more; +10% acceleration.
Felucca
A narrow lateen runner, light and quick.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side2
Hull760
Speed18.5
Crew6–22
Shallow Keel. Can cross reefs and shoals that tear the keel out of bigger ships.
Lugger
A three-masted lugger under dark sails: seen late, gone early.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side2
Hull820
Speed18
Crew8–26
Dark Lugsails. Dark lugsails are seen late: her signature is a sixth smaller.
Flying Fish Premium
A tiny sloop with wing-like sails spread to both sides.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side2
Hull800
Speed19
Crew6–22
Wing Booms. Sails spread to both sides like fins: +15% acceleration.
Dolphin Premium
A slim lateen-rigged felucca with a dolphin carved at her bow and dolphins riding her bow wave.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side2
Hull820
Speed18.5
Crew8–24
Dolphin Lines. A hull shaped like a dolphin's back: a heavy sea slows her 20% less.
Schooner
Best upwind sailer. Smuggler favourite.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side4
Hull1300
Speed17.5
Crew12–40
Weatherly. Loses 40% less speed when sailing close-hauled.
Xebec
Rare. Lateen-rigged corsair with sweeps: flies in light airs, rows through calms.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side5
Hull1500
Speed17
Crew20–80
Sweeps. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading, even head to wind.
Galiot
Rare. A low oared runner under two lateens.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side4
Hull1350
Speed16.5
Crew24–90
Sweeps. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading, even head to wind.
Topsail Schooner
A schooner with a square topsail forward: quick off the wind and on it.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side5
Hull1400
Speed17.5
Crew14–46
Weatherly. Loses 40% less speed when sailing close-hauled.
Wind Dancer Premium
A racing sloop with a huge plan of pale canvas.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side4
Hull1350
Speed18
Crew12–40
Racing Rig. Loses 40% less speed when sailing close-hauled.
Shark Cutter Premium
A lean cutter with a shark's jaw carved on her bow.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side4
Hull1400
Speed18
Crew12–44
Cutter Hull. Courier contracts pay 20% more; +10% acceleration.
Mermaid's Grace Premium
A sea-green schooner with a mermaid at her bow.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side4
Hull1450
Speed17.5
Crew14–46
Shell-set Rails. A ship the sea likes: her crew's morale mends a fifth faster.
Brigantine
All-round raider.
Rank⚓4–6
Guns a side6
Hull1800
Speed15.5
Crew20–70
Raider Rig. Boarding range +10%; changing sail level is 20% faster.
Baltimore Clipper
A long low clipper with raked masts: the fastest thing in the Reach for her size.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side7
Hull2000
Speed18
Crew30–100
Raked Masts. Huge fore-and-aft sails: +10% acceleration, and she bleeds a fifth less way in a hard turn.
Sea Hawk Premium
A raider schooner painted with a hawk's wings.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side7
Hull2100
Speed18
Crew30–100
Hawk Eyes. +15% detection radius; targets you damaged are revealed on the minimap for 30s.
Albatross Premium
A long xebec under three great white lateens.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side7
Hull2100
Speed17.5
Crew30–110
Sweeps. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading, even head to wind.
Storm Petrel Premium
A brigantine built for storms, under black storm canvas.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side7
Hull2300
Speed16.5
Crew34–110
Storm Canvas. Black storm sails: storms tear them 40% less, and a heavy sea slows her a quarter less.
Viper Premium
A black galley-raider with a serpent's head at the bow.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side6
Hull2000
Speed17.5
Crew40–130
Serpent Oars. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading, even head to wind.
Ghost Clipper Premium
A pale clipper whose thin grey sails drift like mist.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side10
Hull3400
Speed17.5
Crew50–170
Ghost Timbers. Pale timbers that should not float: her crew loses a tenth less morale, and she mends 15% faster.
Silver Arrow Premium
A long silver-sheathed clipper with a needle bow.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side10
Hull3300
Speed18.5
Crew50–160
Needle Bow. A needle-sharp bow: a heavy sea slows her a third less.
Polacre
A Mediterranean three-master on pole masts: her sails are set and struck from the deck in a moment.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side9
Hull3200
Speed17.5
Crew50–160
Pole Masts. Masts of a single spar and no tops: sails are set and struck 30% faster, and +10% acceleration.
Dunkirk Frigate
A long, low privateer frigate of the Flemish banks, built light to run prizes down and outrun cruisers.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side12
Hull3600
Speed17
Crew70–220
Light Scantlings. Light frames and fine lines: she bleeds a fifth less way in a hard turn, and a heavy sea slows her a fifth less.
Great Xebec
A three-masted war xebec of the corsair coasts: thirty-odd guns, three great lateens and a bank of sweeps.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side14
Hull4800
Speed16.5
Crew120–340
Great Sweeps. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading, even head to wind.
Race-built Galleon
A galleon razed low fore and aft and long for her beam: a great ship on a runner's lines.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side16
Hull5400
Speed16
Crew140–380
Low Castles. Her castles razed: her signature is a tenth smaller, and a heavy sea slows her a quarter less.
Sailfish Premium
A long razor-bowed war frigate under a great fan of a mainsail, built to run down anything that floats.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side15
Hull5000
Speed17
Crew120–360
Sail-fin Rig. A great fan of a mainsail like a sailfish's fin: sails are set and struck 25% faster, and a heavy sea slows her 20% less.
23 hulls
Warships
Fireship
Rare. A hulk of tar and powder you sail into the enemy line and abandon.
Rank⚓1–2
Guns a side0
Hull800
Speed13
Crew6–20
Fire Hulk. No guns. RMB lights the charges: 8 s later she explodes (700 damage in 90 m, fires). The crew rows away; you are carried to port like a wreck.
Gunboat
A small broad hull built round one heavy long gun at the bow.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side3
Hull1000
Speed14.5
Crew10–32
Long Gun on a Slide. Her bow chasers hit 35% harder and train 20° wider.
Bulldog Premium
A stubby, broad little gun-sloop with a heavy bow chaser and spiked iron-bound bulwarks.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side3
Hull1100
Speed14
Crew10–36
Spiked Bulwarks. Iron-bound bulwarks bristling with spikes: boarders find her 20% harder to take.
Sloop-of-War
A small ship-rigged man-of-war of the station: fourteen guns and a navy's drilled crew.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side7
Hull1900
Speed15.5
Crew30–90
Navy Gun Drill. A navy's drilled gun crews: her broadsides reload 5% faster and fly 5% tighter.
Saint Elmo Premium
A navy brig-sloop with copper-sheathed masts on which the corposant burns blue in every storm.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side7
Hull1800
Speed15.5
Crew30–90
Copper-sheathed Masts. Copper down her masts and a crew that takes the blue fire for a blessing: storms bite 20% less into her hull, and morale falls 10% slower.
War Galley
Rare. Oars, a bronze ram, light guns between the benches and heavy guns at the bow: deadly in a calm.
Rank⚓4–6
Guns a side6
Hull1700
Speed15.5
Crew50–140
Oars and Ram. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading; her bronze ram strikes 30% harder.
Brig
Sturdy warship.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side8
Hull2400
Speed14
Crew30–110
Gun Brig. Broadside reload 8% faster when both batteries are loaded.
Bomb Ketch
Rare. A floating mortar battery for sieges and ambushes.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side4
Hull2700
Speed12
Crew30–100
Bomb Vessel. Twin mortar wells: the fitted mortar reloads 50% faster and throws two bombs.
Corvette
A flush-decked warship, quick for her weight of shot.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side10
Hull2700
Speed15.5
Crew50–170
Flush Deck. One clear gun deck: her broadsides reload 6% faster.
Dragon Junk Premium
An eastern battle junk bristling with fire lances.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side9
Hull2800
Speed14
Crew50–160
Watertight Bulkheads. A junk's bulkheads: leaks let in a quarter less water, and never more than two stand open.
Phantom Brig Premium
A pale brig with torn grey sails and mist in her rigging.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side8
Hull2500
Speed15.5
Crew40–140
Pale Timbers. Weathered silver-grey wood: her signature is a fifth smaller and her crew loses a tenth less morale.
Frigate
The hunter.
Rank⚓6–8
Guns a side13
Hull3400
Speed14.5
Crew60–220
Hunter. +15% detection radius; targets you damaged are revealed on the minimap for 30s.
Razee
A ship of the line cut down a deck: heavy guns on a hull that can still run.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side16
Hull5200
Speed13
Crew140–420
Cut-down Line. Immune to raking bonus damage from the bow.
Black Corsair Premium
A corsair frigate under crimson sails, built to run prizes down.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side14
Hull4600
Speed15.5
Crew100–300
Corsair Lines. Built to run prizes down: +10% acceleration and +15% boarding range.
Iron Ram Premium
A heavy ram ship sheathed in black iron from the bow back.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side12
Hull5600
Speed12.5
Crew110–340
Iron Bow. Her iron-sheathed ram strikes 80% harder, and a collision does her half the harm.
Thunderer Premium
A storm frigate with copper rods on every masthead.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side15
Hull5000
Speed13.5
Crew120–360
Copper Rods. Copper down every mast to the sea: lightning strikes do 60% less damage.
Storm Reaver Premium
A raider brig with spiked bulwarks and a boarding beak at the bow.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side13
Hull4800
Speed14
Crew130–400
Boarding Beak. Boarding range +10%; changing sail level is 20% faster; her boarders strike 10% harder.
Man-o-War
Ship of the line. Needs a small town of crew.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side20
Hull7600
Speed11.5
Crew180–600
Ship of the Line. Immune to raking bonus damage from the bow.
Ship of the Line
A seventy-four: two gun decks and the crew of a village.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side22
Hull8200
Speed11
Crew220–680
Seventy-Four. Immune to raking bonus damage from the bow; her crew loses a tenth less morale.
Wyvern Galleass Premium
A great galleass: banks of oars and a heavy battery at the bow.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side18
Hull8000
Speed12
Crew220–700
Banks of Oars. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading; her bow battery hits 25% harder.
Kraken Hunter Premium
A warship-whaler with harpoon guns along both sides.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side20
Hull8400
Speed11.5
Crew200–640
Whaler's Frames. Flenses a carcass twice as fast; her line stands a third more strain; shy whales hear her a third less.
Crimson Tide Premium
A three-decker pirate flagship under deep red sails.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side24
Hull8800
Speed11
Crew240–720
Pirate Flagship. Immune to raking bonus damage from the bow; her crew loses 15% less morale.
Sun Galleon Premium
A gilded war galleon of the Crown, her stern carved with golden suns.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side21
Hull9000
Speed10.5
Crew200–620
Castle of Suns. Defenders gain +25% boarding power.
24 hulls
Traders
Tartane
A small lateen coaster: cheap to sail, quick to load.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side1
Hull800
Speed14
Crew6–20
Coaster. A small crew and a short haul: wages and provisions cost a fifth less.
Hoy
A stubby coastal hoy with leeboards: she goes where deep keels cannot.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side1
Hull900
Speed13
Crew6–18
Leeboards. Can cross reefs and shoals that tear the keel out of bigger ships.
Pinnace
A light two-master that carries the mail and a little cargo.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side2
Hull850
Speed15
Crew8–24
Packet Runner. Courier contracts pay 20% more; +10% acceleration.
Lantern Sampan Premium
A small eastern river trader under a batten sail, a woven bamboo cabin hung with red paper lanterns.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side1
Hull850
Speed14.5
Crew6–20
River Keel. A flat river keel: she crosses reefs and shoals that tear the keel out of bigger ships, and a bowl of rice keeps her crew — provisions last 15% longer.
Fluyt
Merchant hauler with an enormous hold.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull1700
Speed11.5
Crew14–50
Deep Hold. Cargo is 50% less likely to be destroyed by hull hits.
Fishing Ketch
A fishing hull: a big wet well and ice in the hold.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull1400
Speed14.5
Crew10–36
Iced Well. Nets take twice the catch; fish in the hold spoils three times slower.
Snow
A roomy two-masted merchant, handier than she looks.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull1600
Speed12.5
Crew14–48
Trysail Mast. Her gaff trysail eases a turn: +10% turning, and she bleeds a fifth less way in a hard turn.
Barque
A deep merchant hull on a thrifty rig.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull1800
Speed12
Crew16–56
Thrifty Rig. A fore-and-aft mizzen and a small crew: wages a fifth less, provisions a tenth less.
Spice Dhow Premium
An Arabian dhow under saffron lateens, heavy with spice.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side2
Hull1500
Speed14
Crew12–40
Sewn Hull. A sewn teak hull rides the swell: a heavy sea slows her a quarter less.
Smuggler's Lugger Premium
A low black lugger with hidden hatches.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side2
Hull1400
Speed16
Crew12–40
Hidden Hatches. Contraband takes a quarter less room in her hold.
Rum Runner Premium
A fast schooner loaded with rum under nets.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull1500
Speed15.5
Crew12–44
Schooner Rig. Loses 40% less speed when sailing close-hauled.
Harpoon Whaler
Rare. A whaling hull of the Order: a winch on the bow, a flensing deck, try-works amidships.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side4
Hull2000
Speed14
Crew22–70
Flensing Deck. Flenses a carcass twice as fast; her line stands a third more strain; shy whales hear her a third less.
Carrack
A tall-castled carrack of the old spice runs.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side5
Hull2600
Speed11.5
Crew30–90
High Castles. Defenders gain +25% boarding power.
Silk Junk Premium
A trading junk under blue silk, her hold full of bolts of it.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side4
Hull2400
Speed13
Crew24–80
Batten Sails. Silk on bamboo battens: +15% sail strength, and storms tear them 30% less.
Pearl Schooner Premium
A pearl-white schooner of the diving grounds.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side4
Hull2200
Speed15
Crew20–70
Diver's Rig. Loses 40% less speed when sailing close-hauled.
Tea Clipper Premium
A tall clipper that races the season home with the first of the cargo.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side4
Hull2300
Speed16.5
Crew26–90
Clipper Bow. A long sharp bow: a heavy sea slows her a third less.
Treasure Fluyt Premium
An iron-bound fluyt with barred hatches over her strongroom.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side4
Hull2800
Speed11
Crew24–80
Iron-bound Hold. Cargo is 50% less likely to be destroyed by hull hits.
East Indiaman
A great armed merchantman of the company trade.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side9
Hull4200
Speed11.5
Crew60–200
Company Hold. Cargo is 50% less likely to be destroyed by hull hits; perishables spoil a third slower.
Golden Carrack Premium
A carrack in gold leaf from castle to castle.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side9
Hull4400
Speed11.5
Crew60–200
Gilded Castles. Defenders gain +25% boarding power.
Floating Bazaar Premium
A broad barge with a market under striped awnings on her deck.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side6
Hull4000
Speed10.5
Crew40–160
Market Deck. A broad flat deck of stalls and cookfires: provisions last a tenth longer and her crew's morale mends faster.
Ledger Galleon Premium
A black and silver galleon of the Brokers, her stern carved as an open ledger.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side10
Hull4600
Speed10.5
Crew60–220
Chained Strongboxes. When she sinks, her boats save a fifth of the lawful cargo and fewer of her men are lost.
Great Indiaman
A company ship of a thousand tons: two decks of cargo over a gun deck, built for the longest runs.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side13
Hull5600
Speed11.5
Crew80–260
Company Ship. A company's hull and a company's men: wages a tenth less, and perishables spoil a fifth slower.
Manila Galleon
The great galleon of the long ocean run, laden with silk, porcelain and silver.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side14
Hull6000
Speed10.5
Crew90–300
Long Run. A thrifty purser for a half-year passage: provisions last a fifth longer and wages are a tenth less.
Golden Lion Premium
A gilded great merchant galleass of the lagoon republic, a winged lion at her bow, three lateens and banks of oars.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side12
Hull5800
Speed11.5
Crew120–360
Free Rowers. +25% speed in winds under half strength; oars give at least 3 m/s on any heading; her rowers are free men of the lagoon, paid 10% less.
23 hulls
Haulers
Cog
A round-bellied cog: one square sail and a hold like a barn.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side1
Hull1100
Speed11.5
Crew8–26
Fore and Aft Castles. Defenders gain +25% boarding power.
Herring Buss
A broad herring buss full of barrels.
Rank⚓1–3
Guns a side1
Hull1050
Speed11
Crew10–30
Herring Well. Nets take twice the catch; fish in the hold spoils three times slower.
Pink
A narrow-sterned pink with a big round hold.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull1900
Speed11
Crew14–50
Narrow Stern. Cargo is 50% less likely to be destroyed by hull hits.
Hulk
A massive round-ended hulk with high sides and a huge hold.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull2200
Speed10
Crew16–56
High Sides. High round sides: the first ten seconds of an enemy boarding come 15% weaker.
Collier
A blunt flat-bottomed collier: cheap, sooty and full.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side2
Hull2000
Speed10.5
Crew14–50
Flat Bottom. She takes the ground without harm: reefs and shoals do her half the damage.
Mimic Barge Premium
A broad, crooked cargo barge whose hold is full of barrels that are not all barrels.
Rank⚓3–5
Guns a side3
Hull2100
Speed10.5
Crew14–50
Hold of Odd Corners. A crooked hold full of odd corners: cargo is 50% less likely to be destroyed by hull hits, and contraband takes 15% less room.
Storeship
A naval storeship: few guns and a deep hold of stores.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side4
Hull3000
Speed10.5
Crew30–110
Naval Stores. Planks, sailcloth and provisions take a quarter less room in her hold.
Cargo Frigate
A frigate whose gun deck was turned into hold.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side6
Hull3200
Speed11
Crew40–140
Frigate Frames. Broadside reload 8% faster when both batteries are loaded.
Armed Fluyt
A fluyt pierced for guns on her upper deck: a navy's transport, armed en flûte.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side6
Hull3100
Speed10.5
Crew30–110
Pierced for Guns. A transport that can fight back: her chasers hit 25% harder and train 15° wider.
Icebound Hulk Premium
A broad northern hulk sheathed in ice that never melts, frost on her rigging and white bears on her deck.
Rank⚓5–7
Guns a side5
Hull3400
Speed9.5
Crew30–110
Ice in the Hold. Her hold is packed with ice that never melts: perishables spoil 40% slower, and her iced bow takes 20% less from a ram.
Galleon
Floating fortress and treasure hauler.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side10
Hull4800
Speed10.5
Crew60–260
Stern Castle. Defenders gain +25% boarding power.
Plate Galleon
A four-masted plate galleon built to carry silver.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side10
Hull5200
Speed10
Crew70–280
Towering Stern. Defenders gain +25% boarding power.
Turtle Barge Premium
A barge built on the back of a colossal ancient sea turtle.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side8
Hull6000
Speed9
Crew60–220
Living Shell. The shell of an ancient turtle: +10% hull, and leaks let in a third less water.
Menagerie Premium
A big galleon with iron-barred cages along her deck.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side10
Hull5000
Speed9.5
Crew70–260
Feeding Pails. A ship that feeds a zoo feeds her crew well: provisions last a fifth longer.
Coral Hulk Premium
A great old hulk overgrown with living coral.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side9
Hull6200
Speed8.5
Crew60–220
Coral Skin. Coral grows over every breach: she mends 20% faster.
Treasure Junk Premium
A nine-masted treasure junk in red and gold.
Rank⚓7–9
Guns a side10
Hull5400
Speed10
Crew80–280
Nine Batten Masts. +15% sail strength, and storms tear her sails 30% less.
Great Galleon
An enormous galleon with three decks of hold.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side14
Hull7600
Speed9.5
Crew110–420
Three Decks of Hold. Cargo is 50% less likely to be destroyed by hull hits.
Leviathan Ark Premium
A colossal ark with sea-water pens where young sea creatures swim.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side12
Hull8400
Speed9
Crew120–440
Sea Pens. Nets take twice the catch; fish in the hold spoils three times slower.
Floating Fortress Premium
A square fortress-ship with stone-grey battlements and gun towers.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side18
Hull10500
Speed8
Crew160–560
Battlements. Defenders gain +25% boarding power.
Whale Mother Premium
A whaling mothership with boats on davits all round her.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side12
Hull8000
Speed9.5
Crew140–480
Try-works. Flenses a carcass twice as fast; her line stands a third more strain; shy whales hear her a third less.
Drowned Cathedral Premium
A ship of the Choir built like a drowned cathedral, bells in her rigging.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side14
Hull8800
Speed9
Crew140–500
Belfry. Bells of the Choir in her rigging: their toll drowns the Song of the Drowned Whale for every ship within 200 m.
Pirate Haven Premium
A floating pirate town on an old hull: shacks, a tavern and rope bridges.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side14
Hull8600
Speed9
Crew180–640
Tavern Aboard. A tavern with a crooked chimney: morale stands 8 higher and wages are a tenth less.
Iron Whale Premium
A colossal whale-shaped hull of riveted iron plates.
Rank⚓9–10
Guns a side14
Hull9800
Speed8.5
Crew130–460
Riveted Plates. Iron plates over her timbers: a ram does her half the harm, and her own strikes 50% harder.