Actually, ships would haul anything they could sell. If the port they were at had nothing of value to ship, they might load up with stones, just for ballast. But cargo was NEVER "shipped high". Anyone who has ever operated a sailboat knows you put your weight as low as possible.
Many years ago I was taking a tour of an old house in Charleston, SC. I was surprised to see coal in the fireplace, knowing that there are no coal mines within 500 miles of Charleston, and that pine trees were quite plentiful in antebellum South Carolina. I asked the docent, and she ensured me that this was historically accurate. Coal was hauled as ballast from England, and the wealthiest Charlestonians (who were very rich indeed) would use it instead of wood to heat their homes.
Of course, as I said earlier and is described in the link posted by Casey, the whole thing fails miserably on linguistic grounds. If you know the equivalent German word, you'll know what I mean.
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