!free! - Takehaya The Last Ship

There is a difference between being lost and being forgotten .

The Last Voyage of the Takehaya : Ghost of the Iron Sea takehaya the last ship

Most ships fade into the latter category. They are scrapped quietly, their brass polished off and their hulls melted down into soda cans. But every so often, a vessel slips through the cracks of history and becomes a ghost—not of the supernatural kind, but of the historical kind. There is a difference between being lost and being forgotten

A former radio operator (who refuses to give his name, but spoke to me via a heavily scrambled line) claims that the Takehaya found something out there. "Not a whale," he said. "Not a submarine. Something that made the steel want to stop moving. The engines didn't fail. They refused to run." But every so often, a vessel slips through