You be welcome, skipper
Yes, the rank will always be Captain. It's meant to be less of a rank and more of a title. Damaged ships, just put a comma after the number sunk, then the number damaged and the word damaged. For example Warships : 6, 3 damaged or Merchants : 12 sunk, 4 damaged. I can heartily concur about the nature of realistic duds. I've never hated the sounds "thunk", "thud" and "clang" as much as in this game.