Message text The closest ship in the guns track is an enemy ship. The friendly ship is more close in hex, but its out of guns line of sight. Otherwise it would be narly impossible to fire, in a fleet scenario. I cant uderstand your point, it seem so clear 
Read your point 4a :
[...] closest in number of hexes [...] of all ships IN THE FIELD FIRE.
Check the field fire of the firing ship.
The closest ship is your  Maybe it would help to look at the field fire range.
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