First off, thanks Mittelwaechter for the time & effort put into your response.
Before attempting to implement your suggestions, I left Lorient and went to where Brest is supposed to be and low & behold it was there, even though the word "Brest" was not on the map. While docked there, I realized I'd lost all my promotions, medals & choice of a new qualification. So I reloaded the Lorient docking and passed out all the perks to the crew before heading out again for the ghost port of Brest. Before departing, I noticed that I was missing one of my officers, having only 4 instead of 5. When I went to recruit a new one, the game informed me "Too many officers!" ie: as far as the game was concerned, I still had 5 officers.
Well, that did it. Goodbye vanilla. Welcome back GWX.
Since I'd never played a vanilla career, I thought I'd give it a shot. I could suffer through all the bugs & glitches I'd encountered up to now with vanilla, but enough is enough. I can see now what initially motivated the GWX team & others to roll up their sleeves & set things right.
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