If the Resolute was 13 miles off La Tortuga Island there may be an argument that the ship was in international waters, an act of piracy given the government is not recognised internationally?
Though it would lie within the Contiguous Zone in which a state can exert limited control for the purpose of preventing or punishing "infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations within its territory or territorial sea". Wonder what infringement may be alleged?
My thinking would be the military ship misjudged a turn in front of the Resolute and got run over. See the two sinkings the HMAS Melbourne managed when destroyers Voyager and Evans misjudged their cross over in front of the carrier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbou...vans_collision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbou...ager_collision