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Larger ships are most comfortable and successful when doing battle with vessels in their own class. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 5, Sentence #81)

Usually a compromise was sought between speed and maneuverability. A ship with two or three rowing decks favored speed over maneuverability, but, in battle conditions, would be likely to find it difficult to turn and close with smaller ships, lighter and more responsive to their helms. A prairie sleen in the Barrens, for example, has little difficulty in avoiding the charge of the lumbering kailiauk. Larger ships are most comfortable and successful when doing battle with vessels in their own class. A single prairie sleen could bring down a kailiauk, but, given the size and danger of the kailiauk, the menace of its strength and horns, it will commonly attack one only in a pack. The Dorna was a fifty-oar ship, commonly using three men to an oar; the Tesephone was much smaller, a twenty-oar ship, using two men to an oar. It, light and shallow-drafted, could navigate and come about easily, even in most rivers. - (Avengers of Gor)