I remember refueling a spruance class destroyer(gas turbine) while I was in, the early 80's. The skipper, naturally needed to show off a bit, and after the fuel lines were detached, show off he did!!...
As they made preparations to disconnect fuel lines, you could hear the gas turbines increasing RPM. As the R's increased, the ship maintained it's speed(variable pitched propellers--computer controlled). As soon as they disconnected all lines, the old man gave word and they dumped the propeller blades to full forward. Harp, it was something to see. From 15 knots, this ship to two plunges into the oncoming swells and was gone! The water thrust out the rear of the ship(slippage) was almost as high as their bridge...totally awesome!
To see a ship with lines like a spruance, come out of the water past mid ship because of it's speed, has no equivalent rush… This is what a spruance looks like... similiar to th Arliegh(sp?) Burke Class. 