Good info, Frau (thanks for the explanation!). I think I hung around for probably what would have been half an hour to an hour in accelerated game time, so it might have possibly sunk had I stuck around longer, and the thought had occurred to me that I needed to fire another eel at the last part of the ship sticking out of the water to make it go all the way down, but I was out of eels (both fore and aft) and the sea was too rough to use the deck gun. Hurling insults at it didn't seem to make it sink either...
