I'm not into yuri either, but people are reading into things real hard in this chapter to interpret it as Yuri bait. Fem commander and the ships mentioning they like her? Unless the nuance is more explicit in the original, like can be platonic. More so considering the writer seemed to treat Long Island, Laffey, and Malin as kids.
Not exactly my view of Laffey being a kid, rather than just a hard drinking tired bunny, but it was cute enough.
Fem SKK looks to be a pretty gal herself though. Mature beauty, definitely swinging for the kind female officer/authority figure. I can dig it.