We managed to stack a decent amount of athena loot, plus a couple of barrels of gunpowder (nerves of steel), but when we got to port we didn't get any gold, no commendations for selling certain rare items and stuff.
Luckily, being brig, the sloop that approached the port did not attack us and came to report the same problem.
The server went down and everyone was disconnecting after waiting for a long time to see if the problem was fixed.