[Gargamel]

I can understand missing a fishing vessel or pleasure boat on radar in the fluff that shows up on the screen. But as I said, this is a friggin skycraper, knocked on it's side, floating towards you. At some point the majority of the returns from the starboard side will be that vessel, probably blocking everything behind it.

My intuition tells me (groundlessly) that it is probably the container ship at fault, as they were supposedly on autopilot only in a busy shipping lane. But the destroyer should have had ample time to make appropriate manuevers to avoid a collision.

I'm not totally familiar with the maritime right of way laws, but I am VERY familiar with the racing rules of sailing (RRS), which were based upon the naval rules at the time. I know if you have right of way, yet still do not try to avoid a collision, you can be found at fault too.