Ice Caves of Sorrow - missing ship??

i just did this mission

i rescued the chick,
blew out the gate,
ran through the ice tunnel east like the mission says,
come out of the tunnel to a "T" that ended at a spot that looked like a ship would be there
no ship

the tunnel exited east, then the "T" shooting due north and due south
up one fork of the "T" there were a bunch of summit dudes fighting something
up the other fork was about a dozen of those floaty white mantle dudes

so i stood there for a second, looking and scanning for a clue
looked at my map to see if there was another possible way out
popped my map closed, and the dozen floaty guys hit me, and one-shot killed me, then wiped the rest of the team in a couple seconds.

WTF?

was that a bug?? or should i have gone north or south??

You were supposed to run the opposite direction from the Mursaat, you'll pass by about five or six stone summit groups of arcanists and cleavers or scouts, and two siege points, until you get to the end where you'll see a boss and stone summit fighting dwarves by a landing craft looking boat. The fighting you saw were just stone summit scouts against white mantle. Don't bother fighting the mursaat unless your entire group is infused and you pull them bit by bit, getting back there is harsh. You may be able to just let them pass though in the turn off and claim the chest and whomever is captured back that.

damn.

thanks for the response.

Easier way:

At the T, to the right is the completion of the secondary objective. Do this BEFORE you rescue the girl. There are 12+ mursaat ( certain death) in that direction. Let them pass. They will clear a path through the dwarves and then end up dead after beign blown to bits around the second siege point. After finishing the secondary ( or letting the mursaat pass) give it a good 3-5 minutes, then rescue the girl. Follow the path to the end, you may have a few small groups to fight, but nothing like before, and go onto the boat.

oooh i like i like!

thanks...since i spent an hour on this already i think i may just take the easy way.