I hope you didn't pick an ebb from the ongoing event, cause the special sailors are by far superior. They come with 15 potential stat and other stats are all 12, when you class them 30% of its crew will be veterans and 30% will be experts, which means 200+ veterans for support crew.
Besides RM has the Caio dulio (1915) at 75ish which is a very good BB2.5, it's my favorite to troll GB's with. Picking an ebb to skip that ship is a waste of an ebb and the rm (e)bb4 kind of suck compared to the other bb4's.
Scouts use aircraft now btw.