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Comment by Yewfire

This trait can only be acquired by building a new ship.

Alliance crews:
Dwarven Crew, Draenic Crew (counters Dense Fog), Gnomish Crew, Human Crew, Night Elf Crew, Pandaren Crew & Worgen Crew.
Horde crews:
Blood Elf Crew, Goblin Crew, Orc Crew (counters Icy Water), Pandaren Crew, Tauren Crew, Troll Crew & Undead Crew.
Other crews:
Arakkoa Crew* (counters Battleship) & Murloc Crew* (counters Land Objective).
* = available only for certain ships.

Additional traits: There are 7 Tanaan Jungle bosses who are guaranteed to drop specific Equipment Blueprints needed for the achievement Naval Mechanics.

Macro code for Tomtom users:
/way Tanaan Jungle 35.4 46.8 Belgork - Bilge Pump (Counters: Stormy Weather)
/way Tanaan Jungle 37.5 76.0 Captain Ironbeard (cave entrance) - Ghostly Spyglass (Counters: Cursed Crew)
/way Tanaan Jungle 44.6 37.8 Cindral the Wildfire - Ice Cutter (Counters: Icy Water)
/way Tanaan Jungle 45.8 47.0 Felsmith Damorka - Felsmoke Launcher (Counters: First Strike)
/way Tanaan Jungle 38.0 30.0 Savage Whale Shark - Trained Shark Tank (Counters: Minelayer)
/way Tanaan Jungle 60.2 21.0 Xanzith the Everlasting - High Intensity Fog Lights (Counters: Dense Fog)
/way Tanaan Jungle 37.0 33.0 Zoug the Heavy - True Iron Rudder (Counters: Evasive)
Additionally:

All rare creatures and NPCs in Tanaan now have a chance to drop a number of equipment blueprints for ships.
Source: Patch 6.2 Hotfixes: July 27

Protip 1: I use Macro Toolkit to avoid having to split macros into smaller parts. There are other addons that also allow this.

Protip 2: Want an easy way to reset your Tomtom arrow to the nearest boss on the list? Just type
/cway and voila! *

Note: An 8th boss, Iron Reaver, (second boss in Hellfire Citadel) drops Equipment Blueprint: Gyroscopic Internal Stabilizer which counters Chaotic Whirlpools. The blueprint drops on all levels of raid difficulty.

Note 2: What about the rest of them? Only 3 other blueprints are available in 6.2.0. They come from various sources. Equipment Blueprint: Blast Furnace (Blast Furnace for Swift), is a quest item. Equipment Blueprint: Unsinkable (Unsinkable) and Equipment Blueprint: Tuskarr Fishing Net (Tuskarr Fishing Net) are vendor rep items.

The blueprints for Ammo Reserves, Automated Sky Scanner, Sonic Amplification Field, Q-43 Noisemaker Mines, & Extra Quarters are not obtainable and are no longer required for the achievement.
*Source: Patch 6.2 Hotfixes: July 27 - July 29

However, each of these 5 pieces of equipment has a chance to be provided automatically when upgrading or building new ships.

* Credit to Skeeve2010 for this improved Tomtom code suggestion.

Comment by Palathos

I have this suspicion that we are allowed a maximum of 6 ships with Human/Undead Crew.

Anyone managed to have more?

I was trying for a human crew destroyer for the longest time, but it was always a non-human crew.

Edit: Got a 7th human crew on an alt, so it's possible.

Comment by Frankz99

If this "Increases the success chance on missions", then by what % does it increase it?

Comment by 1583706

I was playing with the crews in my shipyard and human crew was adding different values. I think it works like this: if you are missing 60% it will add 6% if you are missing 30% it will add 3%.
So it gives 1/10 of what you are missing.
Pandaren crew seems to be human crew bonus + 1%

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