[quote=@TheIratePirate]
Oh she's totally a go, not a moment's hesitation.

If it helps, in the Royal Navy there are two or three positions a 15-16 year old might hold. Indeed the base seaman is one of them, but there also the powder monkeys (generally even younger), the steward/cabin boy, and there are [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midshipman#Royal_Navy_.281662.E2.80.931836.29]midshipmen[/url], which are a little more interesting if you'd care to do a little forgery with that "letter of service", but would actually get you trained in the finer arts of sailing  a ship. Whatever you choose, I'm sure you'll do great!
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It does help, thank you. I absolutely like the idea of more counterfeiting. Let's say she [i]does[/i] manage to forge a letter of service stating she has more experience in the sea than she actually does (hence her gaining the position of midshipman). Having been the daughter of a seaman, she's done her research, but not enough. The large holes in her sailing knowledge might've been apparent when they actually set sail and so, during their course of travel, she's revealed to be less than an able midshipman.

When she lets slip that she'd forged the documents she came in with... what do you think a suitable punishment would've been, with the Navy? A demotion? A flogging? That would've revealed her as what she is straight out, which I could go along with.