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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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pekelney

Posted 2009-01-05 9:42 PM (#23229)

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Posts: 23

Subject: S-Boat Manual

Folks,

A new manual of interest has been added up on the HNSA web site:

Submarine Information and Instruction Manual, 1942 was used for training on board S-class submarines during WW II. S-boats where built between 1918 and 1925, they were already obsolete by the beginning of WW II. This book has no illustrations, but includes a lot of details about S-boats and their operation.

http://www.hnsa.org/doc/s-boat/index.htm

We have added 25 new documents (not all submarine) to the HNSA web site in the last 4
months. If you have not looked at http://www.hnsa.org/doc/index.htm
recently, you should take a look now. Some highlights include a 1,200
page catalog of Naval Electronics from WW II, six full torpedo manuals
from 1896-1944, two depth charge manuals from WW II, a proximity fuze
manual, two gyrocompass manuals, 20 and 40mm gun manuals, submarine
recognition manual, ship camouflage manual, USN turret catalog, 24
inch searchlight manual, some booklets of general plans, ...

rich

snakeyez

Posted 2009-01-06 5:22 AM (#23240 - in reply to #23229)

Senior Crew

Posts: 186

Location: Chunky, MS

Subject: RE: S-Boat Manual

Thanks Rich. Lots of folks are gonna enjoy this one along with all the other manuals!

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