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<p>Dear Platform Group,
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<br />A request has come in to align with NOAA for the vessel <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=9414' target='_blank'>Summerside</a> from CANADA. This code will not need confirmation by NOAA.
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<br /><b>Original Requester : Mathieu Ouellet (Mathieu.Ouellet@dfo-mpo.gc.ca)</b>
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<br />Accepted Code : 181S
<br />Name : <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=9414' target='_blank'>Summerside</a>
<br />Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
<br />Call Sign : CGJJ
<br />Title : HMCS
<br />Platform Class : 39 Naval vessel
<br />Pennant : 711
<br />Commissioned Date : 1999-07-18
<br />Current Length : 55.3
<br />Built : 1998-09-25
<br />Notes : WOD 8617. Also known as MM 711. Built as a mechanical minesweeper for the Canadian Navy who is using it as a coastal defense vessel and occasionally to support fisheries patrol operations by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), during which oceanographic data are seldom collected. Not to be confused with the HMCS Summerside (K141) from 1940-1945. Summerside is also the name of a Canadian Forces Base.
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/summerside/
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<br /> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Summerside_(MM_711)
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />We and NOAA have been using 181S for this ship
<br />(Mathieu Ouellet 19/04/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Kind regards,
<br />The ICES Data Centre
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<br />International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
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