Mysterious Naval Vessels, Free to Good Home

Oh Wall Street Journal A-Hed column, you had us at “a cross between a Stealth fighter and a Batmobile” (although frankly, we would have gone with the definite article before Batmobile). That’s how the paper’s intrepid Barry Newman describes one of two top-secret vessels that the United States Navy is looking for someone to take off its hands. In addition to the aforementioned Sea Shadow (pictured), a big black thing designed to “escape detection on the open sea,” there is a barge named after Howard Hughes.