User blog comment:Speedybilly10/Ship Of The Line Comming?/@comment-1051147-20120820131603

The Ship of the Line was accidentally allowed to be purchased on Test, as were several odd ship variations that are no longer allowed. This was likely due to some inhouse experimenting from the developers that was still turned on when they updated the Beta Servers.

It was corrected that same day, but that was all it took for several pirates to snag up these 200k battle wagons.

From the time that I've spent on their decks etc, the design as a pirate ship was quite flawed. They don't carry many deck guns and several have blocked views. Still its obvious we won't get them because it will upset the balance in the game.