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Science fiction short story in an anthology or omnibus, about a space salvage tug called the Dido, which salvages a passenger ship. But it loses control of it during reentry into Earth orbit, and it crashes onto a bomb factory owned by a totalitarian regime, who claim it was deliberate.

The story continues with the crew being harassed/killed by foreign agents and having to change their identities. The story ends with the narrator claiming there is no gold or treasure in the ship, or hidden on the moon, and that the whole story was an accident.

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    Can you edit in when you read this? Was it new or old at the time? Do you know what the cover looks like? Do you know any of the other stories in the anthology that could help us to track it down? etc. – TheLethalCarrot Oct 23 '18 at 9:28
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Could this be Derelict of Space, one of a collection of short stories written by John Wyndham in his excellent Wanderers of Time anthology?

The salvage of the Excelsis, a spaceship reported lost 50 years earlier, ends in disaster when it breaks free of the magnetic hawsers attaching it to the space-tug Dido, and instead of splashing down in the North Atlantic, it impacts a German town with great loss of life on the ground. The captain and crew of the Dido are arrested and the German authorities demand their extradition to answer accusations that they stole the wreck's valuable cargo and hid it on the moon before deliberately crashing the hull as part of an anti-Nazi plot...

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    Well, that excerpt escalated quickly. – Avner Shahar-Kashtan Oct 23 '18 at 10:58
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    @AvnerShahar-Kashtan - Space-nazis are like money in the bank for a science fiction author. – Valorum Oct 23 '18 at 10:59
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    Originally published in the 1930s... explaining why they have their space nazis trying to get people extradited through standard diplomatic channels. – Ben Barden Oct 23 '18 at 13:20

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