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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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Land Lubber

Posted 2009-05-17 3:17 PM (#26708)

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Subject: Did Ya Know About This?

I didn't. Check out this site. You'll need to go down the site a way until you get to

" Geman and Japanese AutoGyros in COMBAT ".

It talks about a folding AutoGyro used to extend the visibility of a U-Boat when operating on the surface. It reports that on sinking was attributed to this.

http://www.combatreform.com/fries.htm

Steve

whalen

Posted 2009-05-17 5:43 PM (#26713 - in reply to #26708)

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Location: Citrus County FL

Subject: RE: Did Ya Know About This?

There's one at the AF Musuem in Dayton.

CLICK here

Land Lubber

Posted 2009-05-18 2:16 PM (#26735 - in reply to #26713)

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Subject: RE: Did Ya Know About This?

Whalen, thanks for the link. I had not heard of the German U-Boats having arial observtion. I knew about the Japanese having small planes on the larger I-Boats.
Thanks.
Steve

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