So recently
i got back into Empire Total war and it sparked my interest about age of sail, because while naval tactic was pretty straight forward naval exploits were rather interesting, however i found rather few resources about it online, i generally had to hunt down information, for example i wanted to know about trade ships, now while everyone is familiar with famed galleons and to lesser extent indiamen i wanted to know about smaller, more common vessels operating in this time, galleons and indiamen were almost pocket battleships in their own right, i found one small trading sloop that apparently mounted a few (like 6 or 7 IIRC) 1 pounder cannons, i was unaware cannons even came in this small size, however i was unable to find any further info on those, i was also interested in general about different types of armament various ships would mount at this time (from merchant ships, to navy to pirates and privateers) but again, little to no information, can somebody suggest a good site for this kind of information?
i got back into Empire Total war and it sparked my interest about age of sail, because while naval tactic was pretty straight forward naval exploits were rather interesting, however i found rather few resources about it online, i generally had to hunt down information, for example i wanted to know about trade ships, now while everyone is familiar with famed galleons and to lesser extent indiamen i wanted to know about smaller, more common vessels operating in this time, galleons and indiamen were almost pocket battleships in their own right, i found one small trading sloop that apparently mounted a few (like 6 or 7 IIRC) 1 pounder cannons, i was unaware cannons even came in this small size, however i was unable to find any further info on those, i was also interested in general about different types of armament various ships would mount at this time (from merchant ships, to navy to pirates and privateers) but again, little to no information, can somebody suggest a good site for this kind of information?