No, but really: I assume you're talking about boarding actions in the Age of Sail. If you play Total War or similar games, you often see boarding actions animated as one ship coming up next to the other, then the grappling hooks being heaved across &c. But that's not how boarding actions would work -- normally one ship would simply sail into another, and possibly entangle its rigging, anchor, or other sticky-out-bits (this is the term of art) with the other one. Sailors might attempt to lash the ships together, or use fallen rigging for a bridge, or to invade the other ship from the masts and rigging of their own, but there was usually no coordinated grappling-hook-ing going on.
When Horatio Nelson boarded the San Nicolas at the battle of Cape St. Vincent, he rammed his ship (HMS Captain) into the stern of the San Nicolas, had a Marine smash out a window in the other ship's captain's cabin, and climbed in off the cathead of the Captain. He and his men fought through the partition in the captain's cabin straight onto the quarterdeck, and forced the San Nicolas to surrender. The problem that he then had was that the San Nicolas had run afoul of the much larger San Jose, a first-rate of 112 guns, and her Marines were starting to fire down at his boarding party. Whereupon he took his party, called for reinforcements, and boarded and captured the San Jose via the main chains of the larger ship (these would be the small platforms that were used to extend the ship's shrouds outside the gunwales).
The battle made both his and John Jervis's names -- Jervis was created the first earl of St. Vincent after the battle -- although the two men had a falling-out over the division of prize-money from the ships captured.
