The coal powered Russian battleships during the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 were doing 8 knots due to fouling on their hulls (they had just completed sailing over 18,000 miles); their opposition was doing close to 15 knots (they had clean hulls).
blockade runners
Blockade runners.
They were actually called blockade runners.
a flotilla of warships
The collective nouns are a fleet of warships, an armada of warships, a flotilla of warships.
"Fleet" can be used for both warships and peaceable merchant ships. "Convoy" requires some warships, but may involve merchant ships being protected by the warships.
privately owned warships
The warships make up a formidable defence front on sea for any nation.They constitute a part of the fleet of warships such as aircraft carriers,and different classes of warships including mineswipers and submarines.
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As fast as you wont it to go
as fast as you can go
It has built warships and ocean liners.