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Wounds sustained in battle on the old wooden ships and those encountered aboard ironclads could be very different.  Shots striking wooden vessels tended to throw about splinters which--as secondary projectiles--caused many of the wounds.  Burns were uncommon.  In yardarm engagements and during the hand-to-hand fighting resulting from boarding an enemy’s vessel, small arms, cutlasses, bayonets, and pikes caused many wounds.