Editing Sailing ship (section)

===Warship===
Melville described the crew complement of the [[frigate]] warship, ''[[USS United States (1797)|United States]]'', as about 500—including officers, enlisted personnel and 50 Marines. The crew was divided into the starboard and larboard watches. It was also divided into three ''tops'', bands of crew responsible for setting sails on the three masts; a band of ''sheet-anchor men'', whose station was forward and whose job was to tend the fore-yard, anchors and forward sails; the ''after guard'', who were stationed aft and tended the mainsail, spanker and manned the various sheets, controlling the position of the sails; the ''waisters'', who were stationed midships and had menial duties attending the livestock, etc.; and the ''holders'', who occupied the lower decks of the vessel and were responsible for the inner workings of the ship. He additionally named such positions as, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, coopers, painters, tinkers, stewards, cooks and various boys as functions on the man-of-war.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cfRDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA14 |title=White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war |last=Melville |first=Herman |date=1850 |publisher=Harper |pages=14–8 |access-date=2019-06-23 |archive-date=2023-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027233151/https://books.google.com/books?id=cfRDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> 18-19th century ships of the line had a complement as high as 850.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The ship of the line |last=Lavery |first=Brian |date=1983 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |isbn=0851772528 |location=London|oclc=10361880}}</ref>