[MD] Say it isn't so

[Platt Holden]

To our British cousins:

A report here in the U.S. (The NY Post) says in respect to the capture by 
Iran of the British sailors that the escorting ship, HMS Cornwall, could 
have blown the Iranian vessel out the water, but the Ministry of Defense 
ordered the Cornwall not to fire while her captain and crew watched their 
shipmates led away into captivity.

Is this report accurate? If so, is this what Briton, who bravely stood 
alone against Hitler,  has come to?