It depends :-)
In good conditions you could reasonably expect 10 knots, but no more than 15 knots. For sail boats top speed is related to the length of the boat. The longer the boat the faster it can go (ignoring factors such as total weight and sail area) before it starts to plane (front half lifted out of water which does not work in large boats unlike a small dingy or powerboat which can plane with no problems).
because he had surrendered in a war that has not begun because he had an old warship that caused him to lose the war
It made them say the name of the war three times, fast.
the sinking of the u.s ship the lusitania.
3-masted Schooners and Viking Long Boats (or any oar powered war ships)
Old Ironsides is the USS Constitution She is the oldest commissioned ship in the US Navy Fleet. She got the name "Old Ironsides" from the British when they saw that their cannon balls bounce off her hull that was made of Virginia oak. She was launched in 1797.
The HMS Hood who lost 1,418 of her crew with only three men who survived ; she had been sunk by the German ship Bismarck .
Three, out of a ship's complement of nearly two thousand.
A prison ship (also called a prison hulk) was very popular with the british and it contained all the prisoners captured during war. A hospital ship was a place for medical treatment during war and was used in war zones.
The William P. Frye, a four-masted steel barque built in Bath, Maine, in 1901 and named for the well-known Maine senator William Pierce Frye (1830-1911), was on its way to England with a cargo of wheat. On January 27, it was intercepted by a German cruiser in the South Atlantic Ocean off the Brazilian coast and ordered to jettison its cargo as contraband. When the American ship's crew failed to fulfill these orders completely by the next day, the German captain ordered the destruction of the ship.
The "Liberty Ship" Robert G. Peary was launched 4 days, 15.5 hours after the keel had been laid. Three days later, it was ready for sea.
ship money is when you have to pay to help out the war !
the only ship to witness the start and the war and of world war two is the USS ORGAN