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Goeben earns the longest entry in this book because of her longevity, because of how compelling her story is, and because of her importance to two different navies. Of all the ships that should have been preserved, and could have been preserved, Goeben stands out. It’s unclear where Goeben would have been berthed, but I suspect either in Hamburg or near the Laboe Naval Memorial. It was a tragedy for naval history. One commentator argued that scrapping Goeben was roughly akin to finding, then eating, a complete, intact mastodon corpse.