> Hull speed is a concern if you tow a small vessel with a larger vessel that can run faster than the small vessels hull speed. You can sink a boat by creating a large enough bow wave.

This explains something that didn't make sense to me when I first encountered it 25 years ago.

There's a board game, Star Fleet Battles, which is superficially set in a fork of the (original) Star Trek animated series[0], but the mechanics are all much closer to ~WW2-to-cold-war naval combat[1].

The specific mechanic you've just explained is that if you grab a small vehicle like a shuttle craft in a tractor beam and drag it along the map too fast, the shuttle will be destroyed by going too fast.

[0] and therefore has Kzinti

[1] Q-ships named as that; "drones" that act like torpedoes, photon torpedoes that act like missiles