Navy Flowers Mystery Cache
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The cache is located off a short trail off of William Head Road.
The first modern corvettes were the Flower class (Royal Navy corvettes were named after flowers, and ships in Royal Canadian Navy service took the name of smaller Canadian cities and towns). Their chief duty was to protect convoys in the North Atlantic and on the routes from the UK to Murmansk carrying supplies to the Soviet Union.
The Flower-class corvette was originally designed for offshore patrol work, and was not ideal as an anti-submarine escort; they were really too short for open ocean work, too lightly armed for anti-aircraft defense, and little faster than the merchantmen they escorted, a particular problem given the faster German U-boat designs then emerging. They were very seaworthy and maneuverable, but living conditions for ocean voyages were appalling. Because of this the corvette was superseded in the Royal Navy as the escort ship of choice by the frigate, which was larger, faster, better armed and had two shafts. However, many small yards could not produce vessels of frigate size, so an improved corvette design, the Castle class, was introduced later in the war, some remaining in service until the mid-1950s.
The Flower class corvette was a class of 267 corvettes used during World War II, specifically with the Allied navies as anti-submarine convoy escorts during the Battle of the Atlantic. Several vessels saw service with the United States Navy where they were known as Action-class patrol gunboats.
After World War II many surplus Flower-class vessels saw use in non-Allied navies the world over, as well as civilian use. HMCS Sackville (K181) is the only member of the class to be preserved as a museum ship.
The Canadian Navy uses hull classification symbols to identify the types of its ships. In a ship name such as HMCS Sackville (K181) the ship prefix HMCS for His or Her Majesty's Canadian Ship indicates the vessel is a warship in service to the Monarch of Canada, the proper name Sackville may follow a naming convention for the class of vessel. The hull classification symbol in the example is the parenthetical suffix (K181), where the hull classification type K indicates that the Sackville is a Corvette. Hull classification symbols are commonly referred to as “Pennant Numbers”
Information taken from Wikipedia website
Cache Position:
48°A.B N
123°C.0D W
In order to find this cache, you will need to find the information below:
1) HMCS BRANTFORD spent two years as an escort vessel in the convoy lanes of the Western Atlantic during the Battle of Atlantic, World War II, logging thousands of miles between 1942 to 1944. A= the first two digits of her pennant number.
2) HMCS OAKVILLE was laid down by Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. on 21 May 1940. She is credited for sinking U-94 on 28 Aug 1942. B= the three digits of her pennant number.
3) HMCS QUESNEL was built by the Victoria Machinery Depot Company Ltd in Victoria, BC. She safely towed the freighter S.S. Fort Camosun into port after it was torpedoed and shelled by Japanese submarine I-26 off Cape Flattery in June 1942. C= the last two digits of her pennant number.
4) HMCS VANCOUVER served from her commission in March 1942 to the end of the war and was taken out of service in June 1945. She assisted HMCS Quesnel in the safe passage of S.S. Fort Camosun. D= the last two digits of her pennant number.
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