As an old destroyer driver..I think that letting a freighter collide with you is had to imagine. These warships are built to accelerate, stop and turn at rates that make them hard to hit even if a bigger ship is trying to run them down. I’ve had Russian trawlers, fishing vessels, aircraft carriers and freighters do a lot of stuff near me and never had the slightest concern that I couldn’t avoid them with a destroyer.
Maybe they had troubles working out a MO board solution to miss the other ship? :)
My guess is that the Vindhyagiri was stationary, or close to being so.
I wonder if someone’s 8-year-old was driving.