Is it possible to bump a large base ship with the back of its base when doing a hard 1 turn? A game I was viewing recently this seems to have occurred, and there has been some discussion since on whether this was the correct procedure to take. The large base ship "cleared" the small base ship, but ran into another ship after that. As the ship was moving along the turn trajectory to see where it bumped, it seemingly bumped the small base ship with the back of its base as it turned along with the template. We determined that was the position of the bump and let the game continue from there.

Did we play this wrong and did our eyes deceive us, or is this entirely possible?

Also- Note that the large base ship could not fit between the two ships.

Is it possible to bump a large base ship with the back of its base when doing a hard 1 turn? A game I was viewing recently this seems to have occurred, and there has been some discussion since on whether this was the correct procedure to take. The large base ship "cleared" the small base ship, but ran into another ship after that. As the ship was moving along the turn trajectory to see where it bumped, it seemingly bumped the small base ship with the back of its base as it turned along with the template. We determined that was the position of the bump and let the game continue from there.

Did we play this wrong and did our eyes deceive us, or is this entirely possible?

Also- Note that the large base ship could not fit between the two ships.

If your final position bumps, and there's any other ships in between the final position and the starting position blocking you from just backing off the ship in the final position, you back up along the template until you're no longer overlapping anything. So in your case, if the back bumped another small ship, youd keep backing up until you no longer overlapped that ship

It's somewhat unusual, but perfectly possible. From your description, it sounds as if the game was played correctly.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but it's worth noting that a 1 turn on a large base overlaps slightly (by around half the width of a movement template at the corner) with its original location, which may answer your question.