This cache is located in Manitowoc County’s newest – Point Creek
County Park. This park is now under development but still open to
public access. The South end of the park is where most of the work
is taking place. It is also well worth a nice hike to see the deer,
birds, and other wildlife there. The cache however is placed on the
North side of the park and is completely inaccessible by trail.
There currently are no trails within the park except for those
created by wildlife and a few cleared by the forestry crews who are
in the process of thinning out the conifers. The occasional wet
ground will appear to moisten your socks and provide fertile
environs for our promiscuous parasitic party poopers.
Parking is available at the only public “entrance” – N 43*
58.286' W 087* 42.115'
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There is no longer a need to verify your
find with the Secret Submarine Code Word.
Rasher: A vermilion colored rockfish or
scorpionfish found along the California coast.
Keel
laid: 4MAY42 Launched:
20DEC42 Commissioned: 8JUN43 with Cdr Edward S.
Hutchinson in command
On her first war patrol, 24 September through 24 November 1943,
RASHER operated in the Makassar Strait-Celebes Sea area,
and sank a passenger-cargo ship in a submerged attack at dawn on 9
October. Four days later, off Ambon Harbor, she spotted a convoy of
four merchantmen escorted by two destroyers and a "Pete" seaplane,
fired two salvoes of three torpedoes each, and crash dived to avoid
the destroyers, and bombs from the scout plane. A freighter broke
up and sank, while the escorts struck back in a vigorous but vain
counterattack. On the afternoon of 31 October, while patrolling the
shipping lanes off the Borneo coast, RASHER commenced
trailing a tanker, but because of a patrolling float plane, was
unable to attack until night. RASHER then surfaced,
attacked and sent the tanker to the bottom after a thunderous
explosion of exploding torpedoes and gasoline.
The submarine's next victim was a tanker which lost her stern to
a spread of three torpedoes on the afternoon of 8 November.
RASHER escaped the escorts by diving deep and silently
slipping away. A midnight attack on a second convoy off Mangkalihat
resulted in hit on a tanker, but vigorous countermeasures by enemy
destroyers prevented any assessment of damage. RASHER
escaped the enemy surface craft and, her torpedoes expended, headed
home and arrived at Fremantle on 24 November.
Uncertain as to the number of war patrols made. Sank 18
ships during its first 5 patrols for a total of 99,901 tons of
shipping. The most tonnage sunk by any submarine in the world
except for the submarine USS FLASHER. It also damaged 62,481 tons
of shipping. Earned 7 Battle Stars, 4 Navy Crosses, 12 Silver
Stars, 16 Bronze Stars, 1 Legion of Merit, 1 Navy & Marine Corp
Medal, 6 Commendation and a Presidential Citation.
Decommissioned and struck from the Navy List
20DEC71 Sold for scrapping
7AUG74
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First to Find Honors go to : wolftracks10 on 6-02-04 Super!
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06-02-04 Minor Aesthetic Improvements
06-04-04 When I placed the cache I averaged coordinates for quite
awhile so I am rather confident in the coords. My guess would be
that the very thick tree cover and the cache's proximity to it is
resulting in the "off" readings. I will be sure to double check the
coords next time I'm in the area. Bumped difficulty up by half and
changed clue to be helpful.
6-13-04 Added Cache Rating System
10/07/04 - Cache visited on 10-5-04 for maintenance and event prep.
Removed Secret Submarine Code Word requirement. Terrain upped by
1/2 point. Waypoints adjusted for accuracy. Clarified Clue. I think
that's everything!
2/5/05 Added COTM Ribbon and links page.
4/18/05 Cache Maintenance Check, Adjusted Coords, added
attributes