Those who build and man the ships are therefore firmly unionist.

那些建造并给船只配备人员的人因此是坚定的联合主义者。

150 British marines and sailors manned the ships along with 900 pro-British Zanzibar troops to bring the total up to 1,050 men.

150 名英国海军陆战队员和水手与 900 名亲英的桑给巴尔军队一起驻守在船上，使总数达到 1050 人。

However it's unlikely that these violent crashes would actually sink an enemy ship, and most of the fighting was done in hand-to-hand combat by the marines and slaves who manned the ships.

然而， 这些猛烈的撞击不太可能真的击沉敌舰，而且大部分战斗是由海军陆战队员和操纵船只的奴隶在肉搏战中完成的。