Maybe they felt they had no other choice. Stay and get hit again or try to flee. Having a son that will soon be assigned to a nuke aircraft carrier I’m saddened for all involved.
“Maybe they felt they had no other choice.”
Maybe. But to me the idea of towing a burning warship loaded with missiles during a gale force storm into one of the busiest seaports on the Black Sea is just crazy. If that ship exploded en route the secondaries alone could destroy the ship doing the towing.
No sane tug captain would even try.
If it happened in port the damage to the facilities would be tremendous. It might take it out of service entirely. That’s why the whole towing it to port story doesn’t pass the smell test. There’s no way a sane Harbor Master would permit it.
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