Green knight 121 -
You miss the point of the majority of posts in this thread entirely - it's called
satire.
Do you honestly think that people believe it was done deliberately - it was a mistake, of course it was. It was a very easy mistake to make when in an exercise with a myriad of other things going on.
There was never any question of the warship firing on the ferry -again - it was an exercise.
Humour - satire and sarcasm is something that we Brits tend to do better than any other nation.
America and Britain - 2 nations divided by a common language!!