Littoral 3 Mystery Cache
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
Cache is not at listed coordinates
There is no need to visit the listed coordinates. All required information can be found easily on the internet.
What is near these coordinates is the wreck of the wooden barque the Katharine Sharer. (Katherine Shearer, Katherine Sharer, Catherine Shearer). 512/440 tons.; reg. London, 612/1854.
Built at Sunderland, UK185D
L=120 x b=A5.5 x d=1B.4 ft.
Bound from London to Hobart Town, Captain Thorne anchored for the night off Port Esperance on 6 June 1855, almost within sight of her destination. About midnight she was found to be on fire, forcing passengers and crew to abandon her before the flames reached her cargo which included about nine tons of gunpowder.
At C a.m. on the E th of June
the fire reached the gunpowder, and the ship blew up. Her upper-works were totally destroyed, a piece of mast weighing two-hundredweight coming down in the bush half a mile from the water, and the hull sank in nine fathoms of water. The schooner Annie picked up the passengers, many in their night attire only, and took them to Hobart, along with a crewman who had been arrested on suspicion of arson. Later the paddle steamer Mimosa picked up the rest of the crew and some salvage. Nothing appears to have been proved about the alleged arson. A diver employed to locate the wreck drowned in doing so, September 1858. Consequently, the wreck itself remained more or less undisturbed until 1929, when it was rediscovered by Marine Board diver Joseph Hodson.
As the wreck site is only a short distance from Dover, divers have visited the site occasionally with coins, pottery, glassware and other small items recovered over the widely scattered site. Other things may be found some distance away as well. You could try looking at
S43 18.EBB
E147 DA.BDC
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ng onfr bs fznyy gerr vaynaq fvqr bs genpx
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures