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At random: Probably the most expensive ballast ever carried by a ship was two tons of gold and eighteen tons of silver coins carried by the U.S. submarine TROUT while on a trip from Corregidor to Pearl Harbor early in World War II. TROUT had removed her moveable ballast to allow for a larger cargo of ammunition to be transported for the defenders on the embattled island. Lcdr. Fenno, TROUT's CO, planned on replacing the ballast with sand bags, but found none were available. The gold and silver from the Bank of the Philippines was substituted as ballast, which also solved the problem of removing the treasure to a safe place prior to invasion by the enemy.

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Ralph Luther

Posted 2008-09-15 4:21 PM (#19679)

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Ric, send me an email with your email address. I've tried to send you a couple of replies through PM and they are hung up in the outbox. rluther@bellsouth.net

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Posted 2008-09-15 4:30 PM (#19680 - in reply to #19679)

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Nope, they came through. but my email is :

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Ralph Luther

Posted 2008-09-15 5:26 PM (#19683 - in reply to #19679)

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Thanks Ric.
If anyone has Chainfall's snail mail address please send it to Ric or me. My email address is above. Thanks Shipmates!

Ralph Luther

Posted 2008-09-16 7:02 AM (#19692 - in reply to #19679)

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Ric, Fritz & I have Chainfall's snail mail address if any of you are interested drop either one of us a line.

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