Save issues CTD?

[Abominable]

So, I have noticed that if I save and quit Sh3 when I'm near a convoy/enemy port, it often breaks the save when I try to load it later.

Example: I go off on patrol, find some ships, get setup to shoot them, save game, and then reload and the game crashes to desktop when I load the save. It just crashes right before it loads in.

It's not a problem when I'm around one ship.

it becomes a problem when I'm around 2+ ships.

If I save at sea with no ships in view/SO range I never have loading issues.

I normally don't have CTD's when playing the game, they are very very rare, I have just been having some when loading into the game when I was near convoys. Any ideas on how to fix this? It's a bit annoying to not be able to save when near a convoy and reliably be able to reload it later.