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Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 14, Sentence #249)

The two tarn ships, the Dorna and the other, faced one another, motionless, save for their response to the swells of Thassa. We were separated by some four hundred yards. Since the principal weapons of the ram-ship are the ram and shearing blades, she is most dangerous taken head on. Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades. I had little doubt that the Dorna, a somewhat lighter ship, with better lines and shorter keel, would be more responsive to her helm than the other ship and that, sooner or later, as the circles grew smaller, she would be able to wheel and take her foe in the stern quarter or amidships. Doubtless this was reasonably clear, also, to the commander of the other vessel. He had surely refused to engage. - (Raiders of Gor)