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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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crystal

Posted 2009-05-13 7:50 PM (#26632)

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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula)

Subject: Hey Dex!

Did you actually watch that movie you sent me (Sub Down)? You must have, and I have to agree, it's right down there near or at the bottom of the list of the top 1,000 submarine movies - gad what a disaster!

Edited by crystal 2009-05-13 7:50 PM

Gil

Posted 2009-05-13 7:59 PM (#26634 - in reply to #26632)

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Subject: RE: Hey Dex!

Never saw it, but this was the one comment on IMOB about this movie.

dex armstrong

Posted 2009-05-18 4:10 PM (#26757 - in reply to #26632)

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Location: Alexandria, Virginia

Subject: RE: Hey Dex!

John, I found the damn thing on a shelf in an Annapolis thrift shop. Annapolis? Submarine movie....Hey this sleeper hasta be good. They found a way to compress two and a half tons of bovine excrement into a VHS case. I loaned it to Old Goat ahnd twentry minutes into the theatrical presentation he tossed his cookies on his living room rug....I thought you might want it for your all time worst submarine movies of all time. And to answer your question...YES, I watched it, but being an old smokeboat qualified boatsailor, I accepted it as plausable, factually accurate, and a wonderful tribute to Hyman's pixiedust navy....You mean to tell me, those scamps who made that terrific film, took liberties with accuracy and truth? Shame Shame...DEX

crystal

Posted 2009-05-18 7:54 PM (#26784 - in reply to #26632)

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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula)

Subject: RE: Hey Dex!

Dex, I didn't even convert that thing to DVD as I figured no one in their right mind would ever want to see it - as an example of our fine (pixie dust) submarines. I would rather watch Ric Hedman do his Z dance a thousand times than watch a one minute clip of that flic again... If I ever showed that at a submarine film fest, they would have me taped to the wall with EB green for the duration!

dex armstrong

Posted 2009-05-18 8:58 PM (#26786 - in reply to #26632)

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Location: Alexandria, Virginia

Subject: RE: Hey Dex!

John, I considered mailing one to Gitmo to be used in "enhanced" interrogations after you told me it wasn't straight guage poop. I thought it was an accurate depiction of life aboard co-ed nukes with detachable "go take a look" mini-subs where you could grab an available woman and go out and park in the underwater goodie bushes and watch the seahorse races. You mean to tell me that rascal wasn't fully accurate....and that there aren't any real co-ed moonbeam powered subs? There are no "tuck-in" and "back scratch" petty officers or "body heat exchange" specialists, you can get when they're running topside with the con pneumonia hole open and your bunk's cold? I believed the whole thing. DEX

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