Billy - a Fairmile B ML (as used by the RAN and RNZN could manage about 20 knots from 2 600bhp Hall Scott petrol engines. The 70 foot HDMLs did about 11kts from 2 diesels (Gardner, Glenifer or Thornycroft) of about 300bhp each, so they'd never been that speedy.

Akenaton - I don't know if it's the same song but there is a well-known Scottish song celebrating Baleana, a steam whaler from Dundee, first fishing in 1892, and ceasing with the First World War. The name is pronounced differently with the the emphasis on the second syllable.

Les