I think using the weather to create a waterspout powerful enough to snap the mast on a ship that size, capsize her and cause her to sink might be beyond even the Mango Messiah’s fevered imagination – it’s certainly beyond the ability of any government.
The US government has spent $750m on a ‘weather monitoring’ system, HAARP, which is rather a lot for a weather station. It’s officially been handed over to a university in Alaska now but the defence department were very interested in it originally, who knows if they still have any involvement.
Have a Google of some of the conspiracy theories around that. I’m not saying they are all true, or indeed that any of them are, but they’re a fun read if you like that sort of stuff, and it does make you think.