Billy Ruffian Geocoin

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Owner:: D’Énnephe Message this owner
Released:: Friday, May 11, 2012
Origin:: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:: In the hands of 3JacksonMusketeers.

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To travel the world, being placed in another cache as soon as possible after being logged. Anywhere with a maritime connection would be especially welcome

About This Item

Billy Ruffian was the name ratings gave to the Third Rate Ship of the Line HMS Bellerophon. (Sea dogs were not known for their interest in Greek mythology.) She had a distinguished career, including taking Napoleon into his last exile on St Helena. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France; the battle of the Nile (1798), which halted Napoleon's eastern expansion from Cairo; and the battle of Trafalgar (1805), which established British naval supremacy for 100 years and during which her captain was shot dead with a musket ball an hour before Nelson was mortally wounded. But her crowning glory came six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, when the Napoleon, trapped in Rochefort, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years. The class Third Rate did not mean she was a lesser vessel, in fact it was the most versatile of all Ships of the Line.

As is usual the name of an illustrious vessel is re-used in the Royal Navy and three more Bellerophons were to follow

The compass rose geocoin is attached to a shackle pin which might (just might) have come from one of the later Bellerophons.

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Tracking History (11994.5mi) View Map

3/8/2015	3JacksonMusketeers retrieved it from Ghost House	North Wales, United Kingdom	Visit Log
Will take a few weeks but we have a destination planned :-)
2/19/2015	Andrew_J_Heard placed it in Ghost House	North Wales, United Kingdom - 140 miles	Visit Log
Dropped in Ghost House
2/17/2015	Andrew_J_Heard retrieved it from Sitting on the Duck of the Bay	South Wales, United Kingdom	Visit Log
picked up on a visit to a local cache. Will take north shortly
2/14/2015	WelshJargan placed it in Sitting on the Duck of the Bay	South Wales, United Kingdom - 6.96 miles	Visit Log

2/8/2015	WelshJargan took it to Hole Lot More to GYG	South Wales, United Kingdom - 1,014.8 miles	Visit Log

2/1/2015	WelshJargan took it to Fabryka Schindlera \| Schindler Factory	Małopolskie, Poland - .64 miles	Visit Log

1/31/2015	WelshJargan took it to Krakow - Muzeum Inzynierii Miejskiej	Małopolskie, Poland - .12 miles	Visit Log

1/31/2015	WelshJargan took it to Stara Synagoga	Małopolskie, Poland - .64 miles	Visit Log

1/31/2015	WelshJargan took it to Wawelskie skamieniałości / Wawel Hill fossils	Małopolskie, Poland - 991.66 miles	Visit Log

1/31/2015	WelshJargan took it to Na Rozstaju	Małopolskie, Poland - .28 miles	Visit Log

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