This is a Letterbox Hybrid geocache. It is not at the published co-ordinates. You will need to visit the published co-ordinates to work out the final location.
These Letterbox caches simply highlight significant individuals, from a variety of fields, who once lived behind a letterbox at this location.
Susan Mary Auld
(10 January 1915 – 9 March 2002)
Susan Auld was born at 12 Northumberland Terrace in Tynemouth in 1915.
She was the first woman to graduate as a naval architect from Armstrong College in Newcastle (at that time part of Durham University, and forerunner of what was later to become Newcastle University). She joined the design office of Swan Hunter and Whigham Richardson at the Neptune yard on Tyneside, at a time when few women worked in the shipbuilding industry. Susan went on to have a distinguished career as a pioneering architect in the Royal Navy and helped design HMS Anson, HMS Albion and vessels that were used to land Allied troops on D-Day in France in 1944, during the Second World War.
After the war she helped design the Bergen Line ferry TS Leda that plied the North Sea between Newcastle and Norway 1953 to 1974.
On Trafalgar Day, Friday 21 October 2022 North Tyneside Council and heritage charity The Common Room unveiled a blue plaque to honour her life and achievements at 12 Northumberland Terrace.
To calculate the final co-ordinates:
Look at the blue plaque on the wall of No 12 (please be mindful that this is a private house).
N55 00.ABC W001 25.DEF
Where:
A = 4th digit on the plaque
B = 5th digit + 6th digit on the plaque
C = 1st digit on the plaque
D = 6th digit on the plaque
E = 5th + 6th + 7th digits on the plaque
F = 4th digit on the plaque
The cache is very small but does contain a stamp. Please leave this in the cache. The cache is a short walk away.