With sails up and filled, even the slower ships could put out to sea rapidly, safe from attack.

The slower and more heavily damaged ships are doomed anyway.

They can leave their slower ships behind to catch up.

In a flash theDestiny was coming up on the much slower ship.

So we'd have to wait for a slower ship.

If it turned out to have position as well, its high velocity fire could rip slower ships to ribbons'.

If the fleet tried to sail faster, it could only be at the expense of leaving its slower ships behind.

The dead meat from several boats was then brought back to the larger, slower ship for processing and storage until the return to land.

The van of the French fleet began to catch the two slower British ships.

The land dropped away behind them and they sailed on through the morning, at no great speed for their pace was set by the slower ship.