Every year, on the anniversary of the founding of the US Navy Submarine Force, at every submarine base and other locations where a sufficient number of submariners is located, they hold the Submarine Birthday Ball. The name itself is something of a misnomer, for it is as much of a memorial service as it is a celebration. At the beginning of the activities, two submariners are selected - the youngest who most recently finished their submarine qualifications, and the oldest (usually retired and advanced in age) who had qualified in submarines the farthest in the past (at one such event I attended in the mid 1980's, that gentleman had qualified on submarines back in WWI). These two submariners then conduct a ceremony, during which all present stand at attention. The oldest reads off the name of every USN submarine that has been lost since the inception of the force, and for each submarine's name read aloud, the youngest will ring a ship's bell once, to honor the submariners that were lost along with their boat. As best I recall, at last count there were 52 submarines on that list. And for each one, the same epitath is given - "ON ETERNAL PATROL"
@D3vious113 Жыл бұрын
Oh man, imagine if they ever see a ground war. "Marines don't die; they're either assaulting Hell or called to guard Heaven's gates."
@michiganengineer8621 Жыл бұрын
Every long-time mariner _KNOWS_ that their ship is "alive" in a way that simply can't be explained. The longer the vessel has been in service, the stronger that feeling is. A visit to the USS Constitution will confirm that to anyone who has sailed the ocean. I know my dad felt the same way about the B-17 he was co-pilot on (Duffy's Tavern), so I suspect all of those who spend a lot of time with ANY particular piece of complex machinery do as well.
@redeye3869 Жыл бұрын
Machine spirits.
@Maddog3060 Жыл бұрын
Visiting an old museum ship certainly gives one an odd feeling. I swear BB-60 makes you feel at home.
@johnchappell2482 Жыл бұрын
not just ships or planes the trucks I was assigned to definitely did. Warpig was easygoing although it liked to toe in its front tires and short-out radio bases. Hermy the 1151 was brand new so didn't really have one besides screwing with the go lights turning em on and off and moving them. Frigid got burned down. And did not like being driven by anyone but me since it was rewired and worked on by me. My 249 I just called her the bitch she did not like me. first range I went to with her she threw the gas return piston thats part of the bolt assembly let me tell you that was fun to fix
@michiganengineer8621 Жыл бұрын
@@johnchappell2482 Several of my cars have had personalities as have most of my computers. 35 or so years ago I worked in a computer store on Long Island that sold and serviced Commodore Amiga computers. I am STILL convinced that one of the designers of the chassis for the A2000 and later was Vlad Dracul, I didn't get a single one of those things out the door without a blood offering.
@scott644 Жыл бұрын
I wonder what a truly alien species would think, once they realized we give names and attribute both life and personality to our ships, vehicles, homes, and even tools.
@GuukanKitsune Жыл бұрын
I wonder would they think when they realize our vehicles, homes, and tools often continue functioning after by all logic they SHOULD have long since broken down... almost as if they *ARE* alive.
@scott644 Жыл бұрын
@@GuukanKitsune And then figure out, to us - after a fashion - they are!
@brianmeans5965 Жыл бұрын
Ah humanity the only species to have the tools to create after death.
@kennethhummel4409 Жыл бұрын
On eternal patrol, listed as overdue… USS Wahoo and her sisters.for all submariners that went to sea and never made port.
@tedb.5707 Жыл бұрын
Strangely affecting, raised a lump in my throat. US Submarines lost with their crews are listed as still on patrol.
@fluffmaster8930 Жыл бұрын
That is kind of like what the u.s. Navy does with their submarines. No submarines are considered lost at sea they are considered on patrol forevermore. And on holidays such as Christmas they open up all communication channels especially ones that those submarine communicate on and say merry Christmas happy New Year wish them a safe Patrol
@Gilhelmi Жыл бұрын
Humans still know, at least subconsciously, that the eternal faithful watch over them.
@avroarchitect1793 Жыл бұрын
Makes you wonder what the ESPer would experience on earth. In Flanders, Vimmy Ridge, Paschendale or Arlington.
@scott644 Жыл бұрын
@@avroarchitect1793 Imagine what said ESPer would think once they discovered the like of our fictions where the spirits of long-fallen ships return to help humanity fight and survive. On the premise of this story, they might just determine humans to be psychics, subconsciously contributing to and drawing knowledge and inspiration from a collective consciousness.
@SergeyWaytov Жыл бұрын
@@avroarchitect1793 Such an interesting and Cool story indeed, and much a confusion to all dem Espers
@sethgilcrist8088 Жыл бұрын
@@avroarchitect1793 Arlington would fill like controlled death iron willed controlled death.
@purevert Жыл бұрын
I just don't know why but this story is making me strangely emotional.
@OGSontar Жыл бұрын
Congratulations! You're Human! Our ghosts never leave us. All we need do is feel. Listen. No 'psychic' or tarot reader needed.
@gmradio2436 Жыл бұрын
The first time they try to force a human ghost to do something. It will be entertaining to watch. They should also avoid earth at all cost. Flying Dutchman might get them.
@lemax6865 Жыл бұрын
Eh, I don't know. The Flying Dutchman would be a danger, but by the way this fictional universe works, there'd be a *lot* of friendly ghost ships fighting it off as well.
@thehatter9400 Жыл бұрын
Least we forget! The flyin dutchmen!!
@truekhmer7292 Жыл бұрын
For those interested, the second part is on Reddit where he gets to experience the love of earth in all its might. I’m not gonna spoil anything if he ever narrates the second part but personally I think it’s the better of the two.
@riverraven7359 Жыл бұрын
That ambassador is going to get a shock if he ever sails on earth...
@someoneawesome8717 Жыл бұрын
SO MANY GHOST DOGGOS
@WE_DONT_LIE Жыл бұрын
More like millions of aircraft and ships
@steeltalen3486 Жыл бұрын
And land craft
@beingsneaky Жыл бұрын
Mexico day of the dead... Halloween... well basicly every humans ancestors... some pay more respect to they dead then others.. well some don't at all..
@katesauve3698 Жыл бұрын
@@beingsneaky one of the things that I do on Halloween is get a small pumpkin and make a Jack o lantern for the dead to have a rest for the day and make cookies and leave them out for them to let them know that even if I don't know who they are they are remembered
@smaragdwolf1 Жыл бұрын
It seems that the Ambassador is lucky not to see Earth on his Tour. Probably a whoel different Aura there.
@michaelyoung7261 Жыл бұрын
I am always filled with pride when we, as Americans, stand tall and proud to show respect for those who have sacrificed all. It is a bittersweet pride, because they don’t get to stand with us any longer as they continue on their eternal patrol.
@zyanidwarfare5634 Жыл бұрын
Indefatigable means “persisting tirelessly” The perfect name for a specter ship
@jeanannd11 ай бұрын
The spirits of loved ones and also pets. Well, comforting really. Ghost ship guarding the first outer system colony. Wonderful!
@dmaxcustom Жыл бұрын
The memory of the dutiful is never forgotten. May their will be forever entombed in their ship's core.
@peterwalls-qf7ii Жыл бұрын
Friendly was she ? For now, kindly remember what she is. A part of us and of Our Father, a short of bridge.
@kimudo Жыл бұрын
It's a heartening thought, and a commendable honor, so rarely given those that go before us.
@labella9291 Жыл бұрын
Got me in the feels!
@firedirewolf Жыл бұрын
Echos more than ghosts, the mental imprint of the belief gives it form, energy and personality, so... Warp but without the chaos deities, and you can be quite certain that there are a lot of ghosts in the closet as the memory of the past is what gives us a future
@antodiyo7523 Жыл бұрын
The warp in dark age of technology
@firedirewolf Жыл бұрын
@@antodiyo7523 did the warp preform differently before then? As I was basically removing the chaos forms in my head when I made that comment... Though I thought nurgle and slanneck were older than humanities jaunt into the cosmos
@USS_Grey_Ghost Жыл бұрын
Need more ghost stories like this one
@mychaeldark1007 Жыл бұрын
Damn, that last sentence made me start tearing up.
@seldonwright4345 Жыл бұрын
The faithful old dogs, still watching and protecting their humans.
@Sean_XT Жыл бұрын
This story reminded me of a scifi story/song about Dawson’s Christian, the ghost starship
@Marcus_Postma9 ай бұрын
Humans may not be able to see them, but on an instinctual level we can still feel and perceive them.
@michiganengineer8621 Жыл бұрын
Oh goody! There _IS_ a Part 2! And it's actually BETTER than this one!
@DepressedCrow Жыл бұрын
A ship is never destroyed, just missing in action
@rolandosada807710 ай бұрын
Well done! A bit of a choke up on that one. Clever tale and my thanks.
@merlinathrawes7468 ай бұрын
Still honored and remembered.
@gmailquinn Жыл бұрын
In another story they found a human ship hulk and the captain's spirit had yet to pass on, it took a human made robot to pit the ship to rest
@smithertoddsforge2625 Жыл бұрын
In the darkest times of strife we learn we’re spirits not animals that there’s something in time and space as well as beyond, that weather we like it or not spells duty.
@dragon_games16577 ай бұрын
it was so worth the 2hours searching spree, for this special story. that i couldn´t even clearly remember. May, the UNSS Indefatigable. Patrol the Space until the end of time. So she also my rest in peace, knowing she did all she could to protect the others. Form all the unseen dangers of Space. May it be Spectral, or Physical. Let us pay respect. For a ship that, Never stoppt to Protect, Never stoppt to Fight. And never Dying.
@sbritton1313 Жыл бұрын
Wait until that alien comes to earth and discovers all the "lost eternal patrols"
@mackenziedrake6 ай бұрын
Yep. The Eternal Patrol is everywhere. Would a ghost watcher see phantom armies on both sides in a battle, fighting on 'til the engagement is settled?
@Velshard Жыл бұрын
This story choked me up quite a bit. And No, those are not tears.
@Monster_Ink Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the narration! For the algorithm!
@mikegammill24554 ай бұрын
Check out Sacred Cow Shipyards, a segment titled "A Slow Night At An Air Force Base".
@brianlips8346 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the story 🙂☺️😊
@zyanidwarfare563411 ай бұрын
I want to see these aliens go to places like mount marmolada, it’s where ‘White Friday’ happened during ww1 and I’m not sure if they were removed or not but there should still be corpses there, soldiers and their guns in their trenches, frozen in a eternal standoff buried under the ice and snow What would the xenos see? Or what would they see if they went to a concentration camp?… places of nothing but death and suffering, or Warsaw, where people say you can still hear the screams… where you can still smell the sweet smell of burning corpses in the air where it snowed ash Or the ‘hot gates’ of Thermopylae, where the Spartans made a glorious stand immortalized in history Or even mount Olympus, the mountain of the Greek pantheon
@steambub Жыл бұрын
Sounds more like a tulpa than a ghost.
@MichaelParker-mi6ie Жыл бұрын
Even in death duty does not end
@WingManFang1 Жыл бұрын
Humans: “Hey Death I ain’t no Bitch! Give me another Mission! We got People to Protect, and unlives to Live!”
@whippygecko1963 Жыл бұрын
I wonder how they would feel about Phantom Watchstanders
@homoerectus6953 Жыл бұрын
this made my eyes water...ffs
@greyclydesdale Жыл бұрын
Whan Death cannot defeat your loyalty and determination, and your people know it.😂😂
@gmailquinn Жыл бұрын
So dead but not forgotten. Take heed if you wish us harm.
@dragonoidsix Жыл бұрын
One must wonder what might happen if the Sythons with their gift toured Earth's many battlefields. And Now i wonder. If the Spirits of all these fine vessels ever had the power to manifest, to become physical if only for a short time, would they be considered Ghost Ships or hailed as proof that their mighty spirits never truly vanish, but sail the stars beside their ever faithful and caring creators?
@ghosty5478 Жыл бұрын
for the author(s)! for the algorithm! for the disembodied voice! for the emperor!
@allenmorgan1007 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Disembodied Voice!
@RealArcalian Жыл бұрын
Greetings Mentelgent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Every Loyal and Vigilant
@yomogami4561 Жыл бұрын
humans understand better then they know
@WE_DONT_LIE Жыл бұрын
I was expecting them go somewhere like Moscow or Verdun
@theonetodefyall238 Жыл бұрын
keeper going
@andrewmagley93156 ай бұрын
Right in the feelings
@klappstock943 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm the story and the voice
@rosebloodwater13 Жыл бұрын
I adore the ghost stories
@dalemorgan8263 Жыл бұрын
Now imagine ya boi encountering an Enterprise.
@additiveartificer9365 Жыл бұрын
So what is ghist of Bizmark look like....
@erushi5503 Жыл бұрын
Those Aliens are nice, but i bet they would be surprised at how much spirit, spectres, Youkai, youmu and such we humans make in our life time Life humans tend to name our favorite items, toys, tools, and stuff heck japan is called the land that births a million gods because of that
@elfeater1760 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm11!
@Amoth_oth_ras_shash Жыл бұрын
mm..... first ,extremely nice that the ship and crew where given honorary eternal patrol not for having destroyed an alien armada or such but for the low glory 'daily' things such as supply runs and nocking space rocks away.. and now remember alien ,this is a specter forged from a ship and crew only infused with just the general thoughts of gratitude for exemplary service in duties that where 'dull'... now try go to war with the humans.... and learn what will awaken as billions of them not just cries out wishing that old prides could scorch your fleets ,but that they could rise as wardens of the whole world...not just for their sake , but the wilderness sake to... ancient dreadnoughts through time will be born as spirits of thousands crews memories channels those desires for the reborn massive spirit to awaken and raise a reflection of its 'body' in life from cold graves ...reforged for space war... or if so ancient its only its name and history that remained , the slumbering thoughts of entire lost cultures collective memory will manifest to into the titans they where named in honour of in their tales... as specters of Bismark , Hood , yamato and countless others rain spectral hel fire upon advancing alien fleets , so would the Titans of destruction eagerly drink the rage of them... and follow ,having the feathered serpent , jourgmundir , aphopis among others twist and turn their titanic spectral bodies and rip entire moons to pieces... swallow carriers whole...
@blackdiamond9636 Жыл бұрын
Imagen them going to erth and walking around
@LeonidSaykin Жыл бұрын
it's some kind of old human tradition I guess
@kyler-r2424 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like necromancy
@snidecommenter71177 ай бұрын
Ghost ships?... Try coming to Earth... if you want ghost ships.