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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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Park Dallis

Posted 2009-07-09 12:34 PM (#28440)

Old Salt

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Location: Anchorage, Alaska

Subject: Sorry Blue...

Guess it was just a little too good to be true.

Rumors about Jackson, Beatles catalog untrue, McCartney says

Blue from West Oz

Posted 2009-07-09 3:38 PM (#28443 - in reply to #28440)

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Posts: 2357

Subject: RE: Sorry Blue...

Yeah thought that was the case as it was a while after the original comment on Rontinis until they made public his Will.

Can't work out why The Beatles never bought back their own music in the first place.

Blue *_*

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