F. W. Y. - HMCS Ojibwa Mystery Cache
Hidden : 4/20/2013
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

When visiting Fort Desoto County Park near St Petersburg we did the puzzle cache U-190, our favourite puzzle in Florida.

With the help of that CO we now have a similar puzzle along the canal. The U-190 sank HMCS Esquimalt, the last Canadian warship to be lost during the II World War. After its encounter with the Esquimault, U-190 successfully escaped the area and remained on patrol off the Canadian coast until instructions were received from Dönitz to surrender on 8 May. Within hours her captain had signed a document of unconditional surrender. With the white ensign flying from her masthead, she sailed under Canadian escort into Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, on 14 May.

Ojibwa in Tow
Last summer the Ojibwa passed through the Welland Canal on its way to Port Burwell where it will be part of the new Elgin Military Museum of Naval History. The Ojibwa is the last of Canada's Oberon-class submarines and a relic from the Cold War, when the West and the Soviet Union were each other's greatest adversaries. “It was commissioned in 1965, built to be one of the quietest submarines in the world,” said Ret. Rear-Admiral Dan McNeil, co-ordinator of Project Ojibwa — the team that orchestrated the endeavour. “Canada had obligations to help keep the sea lines of communication open in the event of the Cold War breaking into any kind of hot war.” To commemorate this role, the Ojibwa, which was donated by the Department of National Defence, will become the centrepiece of the new Elgin Military Museum of Naval History, set to open in 2013.

Ojibwa in Welland Canal
This is a puzzle cache so the posted co-ordinates is not where you would find this cache. You will have to do a little bit of internet detective work to get the right decoder that the German Navy used in the II World War.
The settings for the machine are:
Kriegsmarine M4 - UKW: B
Walzen: Beta I III V
Ringstellung: T-20 N-14 L-12 N-14
Stecker: GA RM IN SL TF BY OP

The encrypted message or co-ordinates are: TFTC BYOP = UFAP LZBT RAKJ VMTN MQGD TFUN BGYY AAMJ AFJU QBTQ HWJI WJFH ZZDY ZTVC ZJCY LXKE DFWW YWVW VBMV PDUO XHZG XYHO IGGJ KRBR TLAE JYOR PGV

Thank you Labrador Retriever for your help.

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Unactivated TB for FTF

Congratulations to DyverDown for FTF

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

nzzb obk

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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