[GingisK]

Except for a number of basic truisms: The destroyer is more nimble than a container ship, and a great deal faster. We'd like to think that the destroyer is operated by a military-perfect crew using state of the art radar and course plotting technology. The destroyer would be like to know of the speed and course of the container ship LONG before the container ship knew anything.

I suspect that the destroyer tried to stop the container ship or cause it to change course. Maybe the destroyer was hot-dogging.

At any case, only an idiot would be able to be hit with a container ship while in a destroyer.

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"At any case, only an idiot would be able to be hit with a container ship while in a destroyer."

JFK managed to have his PT boat run over by a Japanese destroyer. They gave him a medal.

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At any case, only an idiot would be able to be hit with a container ship while in a destroyer.

Sort of like the captain of a small high performance boat on a calm night being surprised and run over by a 100X larger enemy warship.