Oh no! It got stuck in this screen. The animation continued but the next ship did not appear and it just looped there.
So looks like you were sailing to a next combat and it didn't zoom out and show the shoot button at all? You can see the tip of the cannon of the enemy ship there but for some reason the encounter doesn't start.
exactly!
Same exact thing happened to me:
This error message might be relevant:
Do you remember what the previous event before that was?
Unfortunately not.