The names below of the officers and ships are real, both British and American, but the names and the ships do not match. This is a fictional puzzle, and you have to solve it using logic rather than Google.
Five naval officers from the Battle of Kingston and the Battle of Lake Erie met after the Treaty of Ghent had brought peace, to recall their exploits. From the clues below, can you match the Captain with the ship he commanded (one is the HMS Duke of Gloucester), and determine how many enemy sinkings each was responsible for?
1. Captain Barclay noted that the five of them and their ships had collectively been responsible for sinking 22 enemy ships, and no two had sunk the same number.
2. Captain Yeo and the man who commanded HMS Prince Rupert are, in some order, the captain who sank four ships and the one who claimed half as many sinkings as the captain of the Niagara.
3. Commodore Perry commanded the Lawrence.
4. Captain Chauncey sank one more ship than the commander who sank the fewest, who sank an even number.
5. Commodore Earle claimed one-third the number of those sank by HMS Royal George before its escape.
The cache is not hidden at the posted coordinates. It’s at N44 AB.CDE W76 FG.HIJ. You’ll need to do a little math using the number of ships sunk by each of the Captains and ships.
A = Prince Rupert – 1
B = Yeo – 3
C = Gloucester – 3
D = Barclay
E = Earle
F= Niagara
G= Lawrence -2
H= Perry
I = Royal George +3
J= Chauncey -1
This cache is placed for the Discovering L&A 2012 Event
and should not be hunted before 9:30am on August 25th, 2012
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.