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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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PatH

Posted 2008-10-14 2:35 PM (#20405)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Location: Issaquah WA, USA

Subject: USSVI Convention Videos

For those subvets who are interested in such things, here is a link to some videos showing some of the meeting activities at the Ft Worth Subvet Convention last month.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SubVetPat

snakeyez

Posted 2008-10-14 8:13 PM (#20417 - in reply to #20405)

Senior Crew

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Location: Chunky, MS

Subject: RE: USSVI Convention Videos

Good job on the videos Pat.

Thanks for sharing them.

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