Factual error: Ships depicted in the film have steering wheels, which would appear several decades after the events depicted. Steering wheels started to be implemented on vessels at the beginning of the 18th century.
Factual error: At the beginning of the movie, the Battle of Scheveveningen (1653) is depicted. However some of the British ships sport a gaff-rigged mizzen spanker, which was not introduced until late in the next century.
