You are the unfortunate victim of a first move equaliser. Since it is a strong advantage to go first, then the opening player's number of shots is halved for the first move (rounded up) to make things more even.
This is described in the rules: http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/warship.html
Cameron
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