its very common in the single missions when dealing with large task forces but i havent seen it in campaigns but i would imagine it could happen if the ships were close enough together. with merchant convoys you dont see it because they dont have enough speed to run anything over, it just moves out of the way before they hit.
the fast warships scramble (often in different directions) when alerted and often you see a destroyer get pushed around and occassionally sink from it. the midway mission is one that you can get it to happen in quite often but not every time. the key is if you knock off most of the capital ships so the main body of the task force is destroyed, say two of the carriers and a battleship, then the destroyers and cruisers will circle you like flies on a turd and two or three destroyers will almost certainly get run into and pushed around but in order to sink they need to get pushed under and flood so unless its a carrier or battleship doing it they usually pop up after getting pushed around untill it slides out of the way.
ship to ship collisions in the game dont damage either ship as far as i can tell but the ship that is being pushed will take on water to some degree so after seperating they sit low in the bow untill they pump the water out, then they are good as new.
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