Well I feel better knowing only the Russians can navigate without hitting another ship. How many USN ships have reportedly had accidents… and how many did that were never reported.
“Bedford Incident” clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBu3JBLWsXE&ab_channel=TributeFlight
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058962/
This isn’t surprising IMO. What is surprising is the Royal Navy has women walking around the ship in towels. May there’s also karaoke in the lounge bar.
Perhaps it was the ship that you were 'stalking' just a wee bit too closely? Hmmm?
The sub didn’t hit the ship, it hit the towed sonar array which probably several hundred yards behind the ship.
According to another version, the Russian submarine got a nice piece of the top-secret sonar array.
With all the trannies running around our military, “What the f*** did I just hit?” has a different meaning in the U.S. Navy.
Hubba hubba the blond in a towel walking down the passageway.. As if shipboard disipline isnt tough enough, it’s just another rule the navy has to enforce on young fighting men.
Experts Report Soviet Sub May Have Hit U.S. Gear By Fred Hiatt November 5, 1983 A Soviet nuclear-powered submarine floundering on the surface of the Atlantic between Bermuda and the Carolinas may have become disabled after colliding with a submarine-tracking sonar device being towed by a U.S. Navy frigate, according to experts who have seen intelligence reports. The 341-foot-long submarine, which was barely making headway yesterday as it waited for the arrival of a Soviet tender ship, was spotted early Wednesday morning by a U.S. Navy patrol plane. On Tuesday, the U.S. frigate USS McCloy arrived in Norfolk after a submarine-tracking mission, missing its towed sonar buoy and the cable to which it had been attached...Reports that the cable and sonar device might still be wrapped around the submarine's propeller raised the possibility that what had been an intelligence coup for the United States and an embarrassment for the Soviet Union also might provide an intelligence bonus for the Soviet fleet - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/11/05/experts-report-soviet-sub-may-have-hit-us-gear/3b30d156-cebb-445c-9c4b-4ffdce10dcec/
Russia’s New Sonar Drones Were Made to Find U.S. Submarines Stealth be gone? .. Russia has begun testing unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) equipped with towed sonar arrays, according to the newspaper Izvestia...Russian warships equipped with towed arrays can detect a moving submarine at a distance of 9.3 to 12.4 miles, a surface ship at a distance of 30 to 100 kilometers (18.6 to 62.1 miles) and an incoming torpedo at 15 to 30 kilometers (9.3 to 18.6 miles), according to Izvestia. - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/russia%E2%80%99s-new-sonar-drones-were-made-find-us-submarines-178323
When one’s towed sonar array (designed to detect the location and movement of the Russkie sub) gets smashed by the Russkie sub, one has to question the reliability of that sonar array (or the crew operating it).
Was the British ship named “HMS Bedford”?
Fake news headline.
Clickbait.
When I was on the JFK, the Soviets had smaller ships, trawlers tracking us whenever they could. I remember once standing on the fantail and seeing a Soviet trawler trailing us a few miles back. I had a pair of binoculars (there were no flight ops going on right then) and as I viewed them, I saw implacable, motionless, silent groups of men staring back from their bridge, hands holding binoculars, black disks where their eyes would be.
We were standing behind our last plane spotted on the flight deck and couldn't be seen from the island, so a bunch of us lined up and dropped our dungarees to expose our backsides to the enemy...:) When I looked again at them, they were motionless, still staring in what seemed like a disembodied machine-like way. I often wonder what they thought of that display...did they laugh? I know I would have if they had mooned us.
When we were about 400 miles off the coast of Ireland (I think) heading up the the Artic Circle, we had a Tomcat malfunction and go off the side of the carrier with a Phoenix on board. Unfortunately, there was a Soviet cruiser several miles in front of us that saw it happen, and they began to cut across our bow to get a better look, and one of our vessels in the area cut in front of it. However, they now had a fix on where the plane was, so our country had to engage in an all out effort to salvage the plane so they couldn't get their hands on the Tomcat or the Phoenix. 
LOL, I was a new Plane Captain, sleeping in my plane spotted along a line parallel to the waist catapult, facing the island, when I was awoken as the full throttle exhaust from the runaway Tomcat played across my plane jerking it violently from side to side as the Tomcat dropped off the deck behind me. I turned in time to see the twin tails going over the side and people running over to see it hit the water.
Several times during my deployments, we had a Russian Bear (Tu-95, big propeller driven plane) fly towards us, with two Tomcats flying in formation with it, gently shepherding it away from the carrier.
I understand what went on between smaller ships like the Soviet destroyers and subs and their American counterparts was far more confrontational and aggressive. Not nearly as close to Cold War as hot war.
It is thought that the Soviet sub raised by Howard Hughes' Glomar Explorer had been sunk in a collision with one of our subs that had tried to surface with the Soviet sub right above it, which is how we knew where it was, but the Soviets didn't. (I read something that the sub limped into Yokosuka a week or two later with its conning tower, scopes, and antennae crushed and distorted, where it was immediately covered with tarps. At least that is one account I read, I can't remember if that was accurate or supposition.
Russian hunter-killer submarines get Vodka supply removed.
Yep!
Whenever I’m bass fishing, I never use a sonar-array lure...
They always snag on something undesireable that doesn’t count at weigh-in...