Exactly, that is the bug, you cannot unfoul friendly ships (unless one of them sinks). It will be fixed as soon as the programmer is available again, he was in the midst of a move.
This discussion currently seems to be on friendly ships. For anybody who has missed earlier threads, enemy ships won't unfoul either.
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