@vnikolov @regehr I don't remember that one. (And I usually remember unit mismatch problems.) (Edit: there was actually unit mismatch too.)

On the other hand we have:

1. Pressure to finish by a strict deadline.
2. Apprentice with less experience needs to take over after his master's death.
3. Unreasonable request for highly experimental features. Two rows of cannons were never used in this kind of ship, so there was a lot of guess-work involved. (Which rigorous testing should have caught, see below.)
4. Nobody being in a position where they could confidently say that the project is not ready. (Even the admiral who have overseen the final stability test stopped the testing when it stared to look like the ship will fail. Presumably even he wasn't comfortable telling the king that the project must be delayed.)

Prosecuted: absolutely no-one. The shipwright was already dead, the rest just followed instructions and the king is the king...