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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=5234' target='_blank'>SARSIA</a> from UNITED KINGDOM.
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<br />Code : 74SR
<br />Name : <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=5234' target='_blank'>SARSIA</a>
<br />Flag : UNITED KINGDOM - GB (ISO Country Code)
<br />Title : RV
<br />Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
<br />IMO : 5314303
<br />Commissioned Date : 1953
<br />Decommissioned Date : 1979
<br />Current Length : 39
<br />Built : 1953
<br />Notes : WOD code 5933. Marine Biological Association research vessel. CSRs at BODC from 1968 to 1979. Laid up (date unknown but prior to 2007)in Birkenhead where she sank.
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=358497
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<br /> - http://sabella.mba.ac.uk/1671/01/RV_Sarsia_-__a_brief_description_of_the_Marine_Biological_Association%E2%80%99s_new_research_vessel.pdf
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<br /> - http://ship-pics.co.uk/mersey2.htm
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />Call sign HO3952 is from Panama
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 01/10/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />"when Sarsia came into service at the end of 1953" from R.V. Sarsia: a brief description of the Marine Biological Association's new research vessel
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 01/10/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />The callsign doesn't look right to me for a UK vessel - it might relate to a stage in her history between disposal by MBA and her final lay up when she had carried the Panamanian flag.
<br />(Roy Lowry 29/09/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Found some more information, including a fascinating document in the MBA archive.
<br />(Roy Lowry 29/09/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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