Priscilla MacBean Mystery Cache

This is a nice easy puzzle cache which will give you a bit of history about the location. The Cache is not at the published coordinates, but if you do decide to go there then you'll probably need the RNLI.

The Cache is placed about 2ft above ground level and should be reachable by wheelchair cachers.

The first beach-launched lifeboat designed and built for motor and sail and oars is to be restored in Hastings. A group of local Old Town enthusiasts are behind the project, and they hope that, when completed the boat, the Priscilla MacBean, will go on public display.

Old Towner 'D-Day White' spotted the hull of the old lifeboat laying in a field in Hailsham, he was intrigued and when he discovered it was to be left to rot was determined to recover the boat if at all possible. Together with Tush Hamilton they purchased the hulk and have now moved it to Hastings for restoration, along the way recruiting myself and a number of interested individuals and organisations who could help with the project and see it through to its conclusion. These include present and past lifeboat men at Hastings and the East Hastings Sea Angling Club. We are very grateful to Elva recovery, who moved the boat to Hastings entirely free of charge.

The Priscilla MacBean is important as she was the first motor lifeboat to be launched off of a beach designed and built for motor and 'sail and oars'.

Built in 1921 at J Samuel Whites in Cowes she was originally intended for service at Eastbourne and on more than one occasion launched on service in conjunction with the Hastings Lifeboat. However she was not considered suitable for the English Channel and in1928 years was moved to Kirkcudbright in Scotland to cover the area of the Solway Firth. A few years later she was moved across the Solway Firth to Maryport in Cumbria to continue her service in saving life and finally was retired from RNLI service in 1934.

Her history after that is somewhat chequered but she is known to have been used in France for leisure for two years then brought back to England where she operated as a pleasure boat on Lake Windermere. After some years as a houseboat she was bought by someone in Eastbourne with a view to operating her as a pleasure boat in the English Channel off Eastbourne but sadly this idea did not get off the ground.

The present project team are intent on restoring this historic lifeboat to a condition where it can be placed in a prominent part of Hastings Old Town. The boat is of a style and era of the Mary Stamford lost in Rye Bay in 1928 which was a pulling and sailing lifeboat without a motor.

Along the coast of the British Isles there are several old lifeboats on view to the public but none in Sussex. Experience elsewhere shows that these boats encourage people to view them and there are commercial advantages to having such a boat on display in a coastal town.

Hastings will be the first town in Sussex to have an historic lifeboat and once restored the boat will be a lasting legacy to the history of Hastings Old Town and its lifeboat men. In addition it will be a permanent reminder of the risks taken by our men and women who crew the lifeboats and as a further tribute to those men of Rye Harbour and elsewhere along the coast who tragically lost their lives in attempting to save others. In the past crew have come from the fishing industry but the lifeboat now has a more diverse make up of crew members."

Assume N50 and E000, the cache can be found at the coordinates hidden in the description above, and so can the hint for the cache.

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