A number of people have tried to make scale "reenactments" work. I don't know of any that have been what I'd call successful. There are a number of reasons for that. First, it can be hard to get the exact correct ships assembled along with captains to run them. Getting any number of ships to sale in a decent formation is a big challenge, too. It takes a fair amount of practice just to get 2 or 3 ships to hold a simple formation for more than a few minutes. Scaling the battlespace & the ranges involved usually require a larger body of water than most of us are used to. This makes it difficult to see & accurately control ships that are well offshore, & can involve some pretty rough sea conditions. It's quite a challenge just to accurately shoot at the close ranges typical of R/C warship combat, where you seldom get a direct line-of-sight from yourself through your own ship, to the ship you're shooting at.

I'm not trying to suggest that it can't be done, but any sort of reasonable reenactment of even the simplest naval battle is going to need a pretty big commitment from a number of people, to build the ships & practice together a lot of times before they can get it right.

JM