As to ramming;

Has anyone mentioned that the masts and spars tend to come down on deck? So if you don’t spring a leak and flood you are still dismasted and hung up on the other ship and could get pulled under anyway.

When the model the physical effects of shot & shock do you think they may have missed entanglement.

Hay but in a staged battle that you don’t stand to loose a major asset, why not try it just so you can see what a bad idea it really is?