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SS John Barry
SS ''John Barry'' was a 7,200-ton American Liberty ship in World War II. The ship was built at one of the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and launched on 23 November 1941. The ''John Barry'' was torpedoed and sunk in the Arabian Sea at position in 1944.
==Sinking==
The ship left its convoy under radio silence to go on a mission to Dhahran in Saudi Arabia when it was torpedoed off the coast of Oman by the German submarine on 28 August 1944. Two crewmen were killed in the sinking and the survivors were rescued the next day. The SS ''John Barry'' was carrying a cargo of 3 million American-minted Saudi one-riyal silver coins as an American payment associated with ARAMCO. The reason for this shipment (one of several during the war) was that Saudi Arabia did not use paper money at the time and this led to a war-time shortage of currency with which to pay workers building new oil refineries and other US facilities at newly founded Dhahran.
Because the exact nature of the cargo was a secret, rumors spread that the SS ''John Barry'' carried a vast shipment of 26 million US$ (1944 value) worth of silver bullion to India as well as the smaller cargo of coins. After the recovery effort of this purported treasure failed (see below), it was discovered that all silver shipments to India were accounted for and a new destination for the silver bullion was theorized, the Soviet Union.
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