Widening the ship would look odd too. Maybe you could lower the cannon decks a bit. A Ship of the line can't be really build with the standard hull parts.
With the standard LEGO hull parts it looks a bit slim and thus too top heavy. It's really hard build a large ship like that, while being so much limited by the width of the hull parts.
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