Credit River - Urge Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/3/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Credit River - Shipwreck Series

Urge
 April 29, 1942



There are many shipwrecks around the world. Some very famous and others not so. Each however has it’s own story to tell. As you travel along the Credit River doing this series of caches, we have highlighted a number of these shipwrecks. During low water levels on these parts of the Credit River, you need to be careful in a canoe or kayak so as you don’t wind up in your own shipwreck. Besides the many large rocks along the way, there are also some other obstacles such as dams which should be avoided. All of the geocaches in this series have been placed by tubing, inflatable boat or on foot by walking in the water along the Credit River. Whichever way you choose to search for these caches, use caution and common sense.
More information about this series can be found here: Credit River - Shipwreck Series

Urge
HMS Urge was a British U class submarine, of the second group of that class, built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 30 October 1939 and was commissioned on 12 December 1940. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Urge.

Urge spent most of her career operating in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Italian tanker Franco Martelli and the Italian light cruiser Giovanni delle Bande Nere, on 1 April 1942; she also damaged the Italian passenger ship Aquitania, and the Italian merchant ship Marigola. The Marigolda was already grounded after being torpedoed by aircraft on 24 September 1941. She also torpedoed and damaged the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto on 13 December 1941, during the operations around the First Battle of Sirte. She was unlucky on numerous occasions however, making failed attacks on the Italian merchant Capo Orso, the Italian tankers Superga and Pozarica, the Italian destroyer Alpino, the German merchant Ingo, the Italian heavy cruiser Bolzano and the Italian troop transport Victoria. She also unsuccessfully attacked an unidentified armed merchant cruiser south of the Strait of Messina.

Urge left Malta on 27 April 1942. She failed to arrive at Alexandria on 6 May 1942 and was reported overdue on that day. On 29 April she attacked the Italian sailing vessel San Giusto off Ras Hilal: in the immediate area was a small convoy of three German MFPs, escorted by an Italian Cr.42 biplane. As the submarine was engaged in the attack against the sailing ship, she was dive-bombed and sunk with all hands by the plane. For sometime, the theory was that she had been sunk by the Torpedo Boat Pegaso. But that Urge was sunk by the escorting biplane has been confirmed by witnesses on board the MFPs.

This cache is meant to be done by kayak/canoe. This section of the Credit River is not suitable for tubing.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fznyy ybpx a ybpx va gur pehk bs gur gerr. Vg'f ba gur vfynaq fb lbh jvyy arrq gb trg bhg bs lbhe xnlnx/pnabr.

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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