GC2C19V SS: Anne (Traditional Cache) in Western Cape, South Africa created by paddawan and BoazRuthFields

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A cache by paddawan and BoazRuthFields Message this owner

Hidden : 12/1/2010

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A slightly more challenging cache that forms part of the Shipwreck Series. For the series methodology and more info visit SS: Shipwreck Series via the related web page link.

The Anne was a 96 ton schooner commanded by Captain Thomas Armson and had a crew of eight. She had sailed from Rio de Janeiro to Cape Town on 11 May 1859 with 1650 bags of coffee. She was wrecked in thick fog on a reef near Blouberg Strand at 21h30 on 3rd June 1859.

Here is his account at the enquiry:

I hereby declare that on the evening of the 3rd June the scooner Anne, of Cape Town, whilst running in for the land to enter Table Bay, was stranded on a reef about four miles to the northward and westward of Cape Point, at a place called Blouberg Strand. The particulars are these.... At 21h00 I had gone below and had been down about 20 minutes when the chief officer sang out, "come on deck for a moment. I think there may be a difference in the colour of the water." I ran up on deck and immediately ordered the helm down but before the ship could come round, she struck; the sea then broke over the taffrail.The crew then clewed up and furled sails and prepared the lifeboat ready to hoist out. The vessel after half an hour slewed round, side on to the sea, which now made a clear break over her, making it difficult to hold on.

Fortunately there were no lives lost due the second mate James Taylor's heroic act of swimming ashore with a line at great risk to himself by which the other crew managed to get ashore.

I took the liberty of moving this one, as the original wreck site was in the restricted area north of Phyllisia. This is equidistant south as the original wreck was north. Please keep to the animal paths.

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Arkg gb gjb onyyf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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