I've noticed that some of the ship parts have different values on them after the patch.
Namely my Giant Octopus Figurehead. It used to have +4 firing rate, but now it is +4 healing. It was the only figurehead in the game that I'd really been saving for my other pirates.
Was this part of the 1500 fixes to the game? Will there be anymore parts at all that increase firing rate? It wasn't much of a difference, but it did help.