I spent four hours straight this evening making my first capital ship, and after creating it and starting it building, my game crashed on the next turn when some damn event occurred regarding finding some corvettes.

When I went to reload, my save game was four hours ago (I thought I had saved right after I finished, but maybe I didn't). I checked my documents folder and my ship design is still there. But when I load my save game, it was before I designed the ship, so it isn't there.

Is there any way to make my ship design reappear in my save game, without having to redesign it within the game? Currently I feel disheartened enough to give up on Gal Civ completely...