In the picture of the ships you provided, there’s a third ship in the Evans collision scene. I suspect that we’ll find there was more than just the tanker and the destroyer in the area at the time and that panic quickly set in and inexperience took its toll.
The reason I say this is that I listened to an audio recording of a previous destroyer collision and the collision was caused when, after turning to avoid a tanker (?) the destroyer ended up approaching a third ship. In correcting to avoid the other ship, bad judgment put the destroyer back in the path of the first one it had already avoided.
Maybe someone can find the audio. It was about 4 minutes long and very interesting. I can’t locate it.
I found the audio of the Porter colliding with a supertanker. I had the details wrong in the previous post. The Porter collided with the second tanker, not the first. Here’s a link to the story with the audio embedded:
https://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/audio-confusion-reigned-before-destroyer-s-collision/article_c7472be8-efcb-5763-93bb-aab66d820175.html
It explains that one in detail, and it occurs during the maneuvers of small boys during carrier flight operations.