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It depends on where you observe from. From either one of the ships (who think they are stationary) time dilation and length contraction will make it seem that the other ship is travelling even closer to the speed of light. From a "stationary" observer who is on neither of the ships it would appear that the two ships are moving away from each other at faster than the speed of light, but this is only an observation and not an actual reality.

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