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Originally Posted by alanint

I've heard the unsubstanciated rumor that steel from the ship was used to make the Ballester-Molina Colt 1911 clones by the Argentine goverment.

I have read about that in print before about the Ship and the steel for the pistols. There was a write up somewhere I remembered reading that debunked that as a myth. I will have to find that article. I am not sure but from what I vaguely remember from reading I think the steel from the ship was some sort of a cover story used to hide where the steel really came from.