[jacquej]

Can someone familiar with container ships explain the two weird u-turns the container ship is reported to have made?

I know next to nothing about container ships - but the little I know suggests that they do not usually maneuver like this.

Could it be a deliberate effort to take out one of our destroyers? Inquiring minds are definitely curious about this, and no longer trusts the MSM to report the truth.

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Could it be a deliberate effort to take out one of our destroyers? Inquiring minds are definitely curious about this, and no longer trusts the MSM to report the truth.

Doesn't matter. If our state of the art fleet can't fend off a 29,000 ton (58 million pound) lumbering container ship, we should just discharge the sailors, sink the ships, and spend our money on something useful.

[Chuckster]

Judging from the AIS track and common practices in merchant vessels, the ship was on autopilot, almost certainly with no one on the bridge. On feeling the impact, someone said “Hey! we hit something!” and went up to the bridge to check it out. They eventually got the autohelm disconnected and turned the ship around to return to the scene. Just surmise on my part, but a plausible explanation.