New Zealand. Look at their track record over the last 20-30 years in world sailing events. They've won the Americas Cup, defended it. New Zealand sailors who then moved on to the Swiss team then won it again. Theyve won multiple Volvo Ocean Races. And are always on the go and usually the first country in the world to step up for any challenge and succeed well at it.
Spain, France, and England. Yet England had the best of them
Impressment
Dutch
impressment
Merciful rulers. They were also polytheists, but were not sailors - their navy was comprised of Greeks, Egyptians and Phoenicians.
britian
impressment
Sea lore from sailors and fishermen.
The English sailors (England) defeated the Spanish ArmadaThat country was England
Sailors did not capture Africans, it was other African tribes that did this then took them to the coast as salves to be sold. The Imbangala economy was heavily focused on the slave trade.
The collective noun for 'sailors' is a crew of sailors, whether there are two sailors or hundreds of sailors.
crew