May Day! May Day! May Day! (Selmeston Church) Multi-Cache
May Day! May Day! May Day! (Selmeston Church)
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This cache is a 35mm film pot placed at ground level.
May Day! May Day! May Day!
Selmeston Church is the last resting place of Fredrick Stanley Mockford.
Background (main source: wiki):
The mayday callsign was originated in 1923 by Frederick Stanley Mockford (1897–1962). A senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, Mockford was asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the word mayday from the French m’aider. "Venez m'aider" means "Come help me."
A mayday situation is one in which a vessel, aircraft, vehicle, or person is in grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance. Examples of "grave and imminent danger" in which a mayday call would be appropriate include fire, explosion or sinking. (Pan Pan is the call made for a lesser emergency.)
Mayday calls can be made on any frequency, and, when a mayday call is made, no other radio traffic is permitted except to assist in the emergency. A mayday call may only be made when life or craft is in imminent danger of death or destruction.
Mayday calls are made by radio, such as a ship or aircraft's VHF radio. Although a mayday call will be understood regardless of the radio frequency on which it is broadcast, first-line response organisations, such as the coastguard and air traffic control, monitor designated channels: marine MF [Medium Frequency] on 2182 kHz; marine VHF radio channel 16 (156.8 MHz); and airband frequencies of 121.5 MHz and 243.0 MHz. A mayday call is roughly equivalent of a Morse code SOS (previously CQD) or a telephone call to the emergency services such as 9-9-9, 1-1-2 or 9-1-1.
Finding the cache:
You will probably need to visit the grave, at the published co-ordinates, in order to obtain the dates to calculate the cache co-ordinates.
Let A B CDEF equal the day, month and year that Fredrick died.
The cache is located at:
N 50 50.(E - A)(E + A)(C + E + F)
E 000 08.(E)(C - A)(C + A)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
EVC OG