My theory: The captain of the Crystal deliberately rammed our destroyer.
Strange that we have not heard by now anything about who was manning the cargo ship. Nobody on board was hurt so you’d think an interview would have been sought out, or at least some kind of identification. But I guess during initial investigation that’s perhaps not allowed.
Ridiculous. Have you ever been on a Navy destroyer? I have. We practice torpedo evasion maneuvers that would have the crew falling over if they didn't grab something to hold on to.
There's no way a lumbering cargo ship would be able to deliberately ram a Navy destroyer. At 1:30 in the morning, they wouldn't have even been able to visually see the ship until they were right up on it. Destroyers are damn dark at night, on purpose.