From 1650Scale 2
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 8 |
Periagua and pettiauger are alternative spellings. Built in the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola, these dugouts gain capacity from added planking and carry oars with one or two masts. Eighteenth-century craft could exceed 30 feet and carry 30 men; recorded tonnage is three to six. Pirates row them against the wind, scout and raid. **Crew** 8 to operate; capacity up to 30.
**Weapons** Swivel Gun or small arms
**Cargo** none; a prize class of Poor at most.
**Use** scouting, raiding and tender service. Under oars she has Speed 2 in a Calm or against the wind.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 4 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 40 |
Bermudians have built these low, narrow cedar vessels since the mid-seventeenth century. A tall, raked mast carries a large fore-and-aft mainsail. In 1700 the island had 60 sloops, 6 brigantines and 4 ships. Bonnet sailed a 10-gun sloop with 70 men.
**Weapons** Battery of 4 Light Guns a side
**Cargo** a prize class of Poor.
**Use** piracy, privateering and fast raids. No other hull matches its Speed and Handling. It catches merchantmen nine times in ten.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 30 |
This reproduces *The Heavy Armory*'s Sloop statistics (Vehicles, Ships and Aircraft). Jamaica's type developed in the 1670s, serving Port Royal turtlers, merchants and privateers.
**Weapons** Battery of 5 Light Guns a side
**Cargo** a prize class of Poor to Fair.
**Use** ordinary Caribbean trade and privateering. Salazar sails a Jamaica sloop. His *Gaviota* packs 60 pirate hands aboard, twice the listed Crew; that figure represents a merchant or privateer complement.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 70 |
By the early 1700s, brigantine chiefly describes a rig: square sails forward and a gaff mainsail, on vessels of 30 to 150 tons. Vane's pirate brigantine mounted 12 guns and carried 90 men.
**Weapons** Battery of 6 Light Guns a side
**Cargo** a prize class of Fair.
**Use** raiding, trading or accompanying a sloop. Kinsella sails this type.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 25 |
Two near-equal masts carry fore-and-aft sails. North Americans use the rig by the 1710s; Bonnet captures a North Carolina schooner in 1718. The claimed Gloucester origin in 1713 remains unconfirmed.
**Weapons** Battery of 3 Light Guns a side
**Cargo** a prize class of Poor.
**Use** coastal trade, small privateering ventures and tender service.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 2 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 12 | 25 |
Bluff-bowed, deep-hulled and full-rigged, these 100- to 300-ton vessels are common prizes. Bermuda's ships measured about 100 tons in 1700. Small merchant crews leave few spare hands.
**Weapons** Battery of 3 Light Guns a side
**Cargo** a prize class of Fair to Rich.
**Use** merchant prizes and convoy traffic: slow turns, low Speed and light armament make these vulnerable.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 2 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 12 | 35 |
Captive transport requires a refitted merchant hull. London-built *Whydah Gally*, a 300-ton galley launched in 1715 or 1716, mounted 18 guns before Bellamy captured her and increased the battery to 28.
**Weapons** Battery of 6 Light Guns a side
**Cargo** people held below, who are not a stat and not a price; the GM runs the people as a scene (Era Rules, The Prize and Fence Loop). The ship and her cargo of goods are a prize class of Rich to Great.
**Use** prizes along the Guinea coast and at Cape Coast. Heavy armament makes this the most dangerous merchant hull to board.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 2 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 14 | 200 |
These are *The Heavy Armory*'s unchanged Galleon statistics. Tall stern castles and two gunport tiers distinguish the high-sided Spanish ships. The hurricane of 31 July 1715 destroyed eleven plate-fleet vessels, including the former HMS *Hampton Court*.
**Weapons** Battery of 10 Medium Guns a side, Light Guns above
**Cargo** a prize class of Great.
**Use** treasure fleets, reef wrecks and major prizes. Apply the same statistics to a period two-decked fifth rate.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 150 |
The Sixth rate or small frigate statistics come unchanged from *The Heavy Armory*. The Leewards' 1716 to 1719 station ship, *Seaford*, was a 248-ton, 24-gun vessel described as "a small sixth rate". Period ships of 20 to 24 guns fire 10 to 12 Light Guns per side, so this battery is powerful. For *Seaford* as built, use a Battery of 11 Light Guns per side. Whitcombe commands a sixth rate.
**Weapons** Battery of 12 Medium Guns a side, two Long Nines
**Cargo** none; a navy ship is not a prize but a danger.
**Use** naval pursuit and station duty. Catching a Bermuda sloop is unlikely; destroying one with gunfire is well within her power.
| Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 4 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 25 |
Spanish governors commission these colonial privateers from Santiago and Trinidad in Cuba. Accounts describe balandras, sloops carrying up to 25 men, and periaguas, two-masted half-galleys carrying up to 120. Spanish, Indigenous, African and mixed-ancestry men serve together.
**Weapons** Battery of 2 Light Guns a side, swivel guns
**Cargo** a prize class of Poor.
**Use** Spanish coastal patrols and Havana's response. For a **periagua**, use the Brigantine statistics with Crew 120; under oars it has Speed 2 in a Calm.
