CANADA 150 - 1942 Traditional Cache
DDTKR: Time for some new ones along the trail.
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Celebrating Canada's 150th birthday, cache by cache, year by year.
The Battle of the Atlantic rages (the single longest campaign of WW2).
February 10th - HMCS SPIKENARD (Flower Class Corvette) torpedoed and sunk by U136 south of Iceland while escorting convoy SC.67....57 perish, 8 survive.
September 7th - HMCS RACCOON (Armed Yacht) Torpedoed and sunk by U165 while escorting convoy QS.33 in the St Lawrence River. No survivors, 37 lost.
September 11th - HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN (Flower Class Corvette) torpedoed and sunk in the St Lawrence by U517. Ten lost.
September 13th - HMCS OTTAWA (River Class Destroyer) sunk by two torpedoes from U91 in the North Atlantic while escorting convoy ON.127...heavy losses.
A U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou...killing 137.
Things are grim.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Vafvqr Gvr...Naxyr Uvtu.