Speed meter
This article is about how quickly pirates can get a particular ship's speed to maximum. For the pirate, see Speed.
The speed meter on a ship shows how fast the ship is going. Performing the sailing or rigging puzzle increases the speed, but a large amount of bilge water limits how fast a ship can go. Performing navigation will add a bonus to speed provided by the sailing and rigging puzzles.
The meter displays a relative percentage of full speed for each ship. Larger ships have a lower maximum speed than the smaller ones; for the most part there is a correlation between the maximum speed and the ship size class. All ships have equal minimum speeds of about 0.2 leagues per minute, or 1 league per 5 minutes.
The following table details ship maximum and minimum speeds. The percentage shown is the speed of that ship relative to that of a sloop:
| Ship Name | Min speed minutes/LP |
Max speed minutes/LP |
Size class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sloop | 5 | 1:00 (100%) | Small |
| Cutter | 5 | 1:00 (100%) | Small |
| Dhow | 5 | 1:00 (100%) | Small |
| Fanchuan | 5 | 1:00 (100%) | Small |
| Longship | 5 | 1:15 (80%) | Medium |
| Baghlah | 5 | 1:15 (80%) | Medium |
| Merchant brig | 5 | 1:15 (80%) | Medium |
| War brig | 5 | 1:15 (80%) | Medium |
| Junk | 5 | 1:25 (70%) | Medium |
| Merchant galleon | 5 | 1:40 (60%) | Large |
| Xebec | 5 | 1:40 (60%) | Large |
| War frigate | 5 | 1:40 (60%) | Large |
| Grand frigate | 5 | 1:40 (60%) | Grand |
