Parker's Tin Can is also used in the New Construction training missions. It is a Japanese sub chaser, commandeered by the turncoat Ensign Parker... It has probably fallen through the cracks of the "GENERIC Frigate" types... Fix forthcoming with the others! Thanks you good sir! btw, it is an enemy combatant, and it does sink. Do your business...
Those crewmen are probably the new Chinese fellers they hired... acrobatic company, but also illusionists... In actuality, I'll bet that's one of those ships that is two hulls inside of one dat file, and the fellows are associated with the front half of the ship, so as the aft sinks while the bow stays upright, there they are, walking on sunshine!...
PS: your smoke and fire looks more like it's a TMO fire burning... you don't have any other mods in the mix do you?...