Lost but Not Forgotten Mystery Cache

NOTE: This cache is 1 of 16 associated with the Ol' Salty Dog's Maritime Mixer cache series.

Find your way to the physical cache container at the coordinates revealed by solving the puzzle below. In the physical cache container, attached to the log, you will find a "puzzle piece" that will get you one step closer to finding Ol' Salty Dog's Maritime Mixer.

On January 28, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the "Act to Create the Coast Guard," an act passed by Congress that combined the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard, however, still considers the date of the founding of the Revenue Cutter Service, August 4, 1790, as its official birthday, even though the Lighthouse Service, absorbed in 1939, is even older than that, dating to August 7, 1789. Under the new law, the Coast Guard officially became "part of the regular military establishment of the United States."

A number of vessels of the Revenue Cutter Service and the Coast Guard have been lost over the past two-and-a-third centuries of service. These vessels have been lost as a result of enemy action, adverse weather, and tragic accidents, and a number of Coast Guardsmen's lives have been lost serving their country.

Below are brief summaries of the loss of just a few of these vessels. Utilize your sleuthing skills and determine the year in which each of these vessels were lost. The last digit of the year lost (annotated as A through H) will provide the needed number for each missing decimal minute digit of this puzzle cache's coordinates.

		USCGC Tampa (1912) On September 26, ###A, while operating in the English Channel, she was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine UB-91. All 131 persons on board Tampa were lost with her, the largest loss of life on any U.S. combat vessel during the First World War.
		USCGC White Alder (WLM-541) On December 7, ###B, the White Alder collided with the M/V Helena, a 455-foot Taiwanese freighter, in the Mississippi River and sank in 75 feet of water near White Castle, Louisiana. Three of the crew of 20 were rescued. Divers recovered the bodies of three of the dead but river sediment buried the cutter so quickly that continued recovery and salvage operations proved impractical.
		USCGC Bedloe (WSC-128) The Bedloe, along with her sister cutter Jackson, foundered and was lost in heavy weather off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on September 14, ###C. The cutters had gone to the assistance of a Liberty Ship which had been torpedoed off the North Carolina coast. Twenty-six of her crew perished while 12 survivors were rescued.
		USCGC Cuyahoga (WIX-157) On the night of October 20, ###D, Cuyahoga was conducting a training cruise in the Chesapeake Bay. A light was spotted on the horizon about eight miles ahead, and it was assumed to belong to a small fishing vessel. In actuality, the light belonged to the 521-foot Argentinian bulk freighter, M/V Santa Cruz II. When the two vessels were only 1200 yards apart, the Cuyahoga turned to enter the Potomac River, right into the path of the Santa Cruz II. The freighter sounded a danger warning but the Cuyahoga maintained her course, not realizing that a freighter was quickly bearing down upon her. The Santa Cruz II tore through the Cuyahoga’s midship sinking her within a matter of minutes. Of the 29 crew members, 11 were lost at sea. The commander of the Cuyahoga, was found guilty of dereliction of duty.
		USCGC Acacia (WAGL-200) On March 15, ###E, while en route alone from Curacao, Netherlands West Indies to Antigua, British West Indies, the Acacia was sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-161 approximately 150 miles south of Port au Prince, Haiti. The entire crew of Acacia abandoned ship before she sank and all were rescued unscathed.
		USRC McClelland (1853) She was ordered to be permanently located at New Orleans prior to the beginning of the Civil War. On January 31, ###F, her commanding officer, and his second in command, surrendered their command to the State of Louisiana and the cutter was turned over to the Confederate States Navy. She was renamed the CSS Pickens and operated in the lower Mississippi fighting Federal gunboats, but her ultimate fate is unknown.
		USRC Hamilton (1830) The Hamilton, the fastest of the thirteen Morris-Taney Class vessels, was named for Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamiliton, and operated out of Boston for much of her career. She became well known and extremely popular, famous for rescues and saving of property, so much so that even a song was written about her entitled the "Cutter Hamilton Quick Step." The Hamilton transferred to Charleston, South Carolina in 1851. She wrecked during a gale on the Tully Breakers on December 9, ###G, off the coast of South Carolina with the loss of fourteen of her fifteen crew. Only Seaman James Hagan survived the wreck.
		USCGC Escanaba (WPG-77) While steaming as part of a convoy sailing from Greenland to Newfoundland, on June 13, ###H, a terrific explosion ripped through the Escanaba. The explosion and sinking happened within three minutes. The Storis began a sound search for a U-boat as the Raritan rescued only two men alive, the rest of the crew died in the explosion or from hypothermia. The Storis never made sound contact with a submarine and the sinking has never been fully explained. No U-boat ever claimed the kill, it was more likely that a drifting mine struck the cutter.