The Misplaced Battleship is a sci-fi short story by author Harry Harrison, published in 1960. James Bolivar DiGriz, alias 'Slippery Jim' and 'The Stainless Steel Rat', is a fictional character and the protagonist of a series of comic science fiction novels by the same author. 'Slippery Jim' is the listener's wonderfully sly, funny and resourceful hero in this entertaining and amusing work; where he has to investigate and - hopefully! - solve the case of a dangerous battleship floating around unaccounted for...