Les! Not sure when you last visited Victory but it's been a few years since she had real sailors as guides. Know what you mean about their knowledge base though.

Our 'script' had lots of snippets that were 'tall stories' but most of it was thought to be genuine.

I was led to believe that 3 shots in a minute WAS achievable although that was the exception not the norm which was better than one a minute.

Either way it was still yards better than the French and Spanish who had a firing rate of about a shot every 2-3 minutes

Unless we wuz there we'll never know for certain.

One thing! their snipers appear to have been better than ours