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<p>Dear Platform Group,
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<br />Additional information has come in for the vessel <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=783' target='_blank'>TORONTO</a> from CANADA. NOAA and ICES have agreed to align codes for the Toronto which results in changes of information at a number of sources. The information below is in effect as of 2013-06-20.
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<br />Code : 18TR
<br />Name : <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=783' target='_blank'>TORONTO</a>
<br />Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
<br />Call Sign : CGAD
<br />Title : HMCS
<br />Platform Class : 39 Naval vessel
<br />Pennant : FFH 333
<br />Commissioned Date : 1993-07-29
<br />Current Length : 134.2
<br />Built : 1991
<br />Notes : FFH 333. Halifax-class frigate, assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and is homeported at CFB Halifax, protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Atlantic Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and Exclusive Economic Zone.
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/toronto/
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<br /> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Toronto_(FFH_333)
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<br /> - http://www.helis.com/database/unit/783
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />NODC is willing to use 18TR (WOD code 1025, Callsign CGAD) for the platform HMCS TORONTO active from 1993 to present(?) and 18TA (WOD code 8879, callsign CZGL, pennant FFE319 and K538) for the platform HMCS TORONTO active from 1944-1956. We will also make appropriate changes to the metadata for cruises identified in the World Ocean Database. Fortunately, the codes were not embedded in any of the original data that we are finding in our archival holdings.
<br />(Don Collins 20/06/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />18TR refers to two ships called HMCS Toronto. NODC has the data for web download from cruises from the HMCS Toronto (pre 1956). www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/allcruises/CA146939.html and www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/allcruises/CA146940.html. NOAA ship list has 18TR 1025 K538, FFE 319 HMCS TORONTO and 18TA 8879 CGAD HMCS TORONTO. Canada however refers to the new ship as 18TR. WOD code 1025 is a combination of data from the old ship and the new ship. K538/FFE 319 is the old ship and its call sign is CZGL at www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OC5/SELECT/dbsearch.pl. NOAA GTSPP uses 18TA for the HMCS Toronto with call sign CGAD. This confusion makes 18TR a multiple hull code.
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 18/06/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />At ISDM (DFO, Canada) we have been using code 18TR for data collected from 1994 onward by this ship.
<br />(Mathieu Ouellet 13/06/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Error with NOAA list. Have pennants in callsign field of list format
<br />(Frank Sejer 06/09/2012 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />See 18TA before sending to group
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 05/09/2012 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Kind regards,
<br />The ICES Data Centre
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