Ve-ery minor historical nitpick: I think you might be off by most of a century in your timing for the ship - by the late 1800's warships were mostly metal and more or less mostly steam-powered. If you're basing your ship on the HMS Victory and her ilk you're thinking of the very early 1800's or late 1700's. (the battle of Trafalgar, widely seen as a key moment for this sort of ship, was in 1805)
Lan-"bring her two points to windward and cut through the line"-efan